Excel Introduction

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Overview

This course will provide you with the foundational Excel knowledge and skills necessary for business today. As you apply the robust functionality that's part of Excel to your organization's raw data, you will be able to gain a level of insight into that data that would have been almost impossible years ago. Excel helps you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, amend, and present your data in ways that will help you and the decision makers in your organization steer forward in the right direction

Course Requirements

Learners must be confident using a mouse and keyboards

What will you learn

In particular you will be able to:

Get working with Microsoft Excel efficiently and effectively
Optimize your worksheets by creating and using formulas
Modify worksheets to manipulate and edit data
Format and style worksheets to get more impact from data
Produce printed workbooks

1. Getting Started With Excel

Starting Excel
Selecting the Blank Worksheet Template
The Excel Cell Referencing System
Entering Numbers and Text
Default Text and Number Alignment
Summing a Column of Numbers
Entering a Date
Worksheets and Workbooks
Saving a Workbook to Your Hard Disk
Closing a Workbook
Creating a New Workbook
Opening a Workbook
Opening a Recently Used Workbook
Pinning Files and Folders
Switching between Workbooks
Saving a Workbook Using another Name
Saving a Workbook Using a Different File Type
Getting Help within Excel
Searching For Help
The Help 'Table of Contents'
Printing a Help Topic
Alt Key Help
Using Other Excel Templates

2. Excel Selection Techniques

Why Are Selection Techniques Important?
Selecting a Cell
Selecting a Range of Connecting Cells
Selecting a Range of Non-Connecting Cells
Selecting the Entire Worksheet
Selecting a Row
Selecting a Range of Connecting Rows
Selecting a Range of Non-ConnectedRows
Selecting a Column
Selecting a Range of Connecting Columns
Selecting a Range of Non-Connecting Columns
Recommended Techniques When Creating or Editing Lists

3. Manipulating Rows And Columns Within Excel

Inserting Rows into a Worksheet
Inserting Columns into a Worksheet
Deleting Rows within a Worksheet
Deleting Columns within a Worksheet
Modifying Column Widths
Modifying Column Widths Using 'Drag and Drop'
Automatically Resizing the Column Width to Fit Contents
Modifying Row Heights

4. Manipulating Cells and Cell Content within Excel

Copying a Cell or Range Contents within a Workbook
Deleting Cell Contents
Moving the Contents of a Cell or Range within a Workbook
Editing Cell Content
Undo and Redo
Copying Data between Worksheets (Within the Same Workbook)
Moving Data between Worksheets (Within the Same Workbook)
Moving Data Worksheets (Between Different Workbooks)
Copying Data between Worksheets (In Different Workbooks)
AutoFill
Copying a Data Range Using AutoFill
Sorting a Cell Range
Searching and Replacing Data

5. Excel Worksheets

Switching between Worksheets
Renaming a Worksheet
Recommended Techniques with Naming Worksheets
Inserting a New Worksheet
Deleting a Worksheet
Copying a Worksheet within a Workbook
Moving a Worksheet within a Workbook
Copying or Moving Worksheets between Workbooks

6. Font Formatting within Excel

Font Formatting Options
Font Type
Font Size
Bold, Italic, Underline Formatting
Cell Border Formatting
Formatting the Background Colour
Formatting the Font Colour

7. Alignment Formatting within Excel

Horizontally Aligning Contents in a Cell Range
Centring a Title over a Cell Range
Cell Orientation
Text Wrapping within a Cell
Aligning Cell Contents Vertically
Format Painter

8. Number Formatting within Excel

Number Formatting
Decimal Point Display
Applying and Removing Comma Style
Formatting (To Indicate Thousands)
Currency Symbol
Date Styles
Percentages

9. Freezing Row and Column Titles

Freezing Row and Column Titles

10. Excel Formulas

Creating Formulas
The Easy Way to Create Formulas
Copying Formulas
Operators
Using Operators in Formulas
Formula Error Messages
Relative Cell Referencing within Formulas
Absolute Cell Referencing within Formulas

11. Excel Functions

What Are Functions?
Common Functions
Sum Function
Average Function
Max Function
Min Function
Count Function
The Count a Function
The Count blank Function
What Are 'If Functions'?
Using the If Function

12. Excel Charts

Inserting a Column Chart
Inserting a Line Chart
Inserting a Bar Chart
Inserting a Pie Chart
Resizing a Chart
Deleting a Chart
Chart Title or Labels
Changing the Column, Bar, Line or Pie Slice Colours in a Chart
Modifying the Legend Fill Colour
Changing the Chart Type
Modifying Charts Using the Layout Tab
Copying and Moving Charts within a Worksheet
Copying and Moving Charts between Worksheets
Copying and Moving Charts between Workbooks

13. Customising Excel

Modifying Basic Excel Options

Attend one of our public Excel courses:

Small Class Sizes

Maximum of 5 students per course.

Reference Manual

High quality reference manual supporting the topics covered.

Post Course Support

Unlimited post course email support on the course topics.

Delivery Options:

Virtual Online

Training Centres

We can arrange your own private Excel course.

Tailored

Have us build a custom private course tailored to your needs.

Cost Effective

If you are looking to training a group of people private courses can be very cost effective.

Post Course Support

Unlimited post course email support on the course topics.

Delivery Options:

At Your Offices

Virtual Online

Training Centres

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This course was excellent and I am delighted with how much I have achieved. The trainer was very friendly and approachable.

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Very good introduction. Well paced and suited a range of experience levels.

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Introduction 1 Day

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