Microsoft Excel Introduction
This basic Microsoft Excel course is ideal for beginners who want to learn how to produce spreadsheets, work with data and perform basic calculations.
- Create, modify and format a spreadsheet
- Use basic formulas and functions
- Calculate and manage multiple worksheets
- Create a chart
- Customise the print settings and print
- Create, modify and format a spreadsheet
- Use basic formulas and functions
- Calculate and manage multiple worksheets
- Create a chart
- Customise the print settings and print
Participants will need to be familiar with Microsoft Windows and basic Windows techniques such as opening, closing and saving files.
In-Person Training
Participants are not required to bring their own laptops as our dedicated computer training labs are equipped with the programs and files you will need access to on your training day.
Online Training
Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of the software Microsoft Excel Desktop for use within the session. We also require a working computer with a microphone and speaker installed, and an up-to-date web browser for this training. For the best experience we recommend downloading the latest Google Chrome browser.
- Navigation shortcuts
- Quick range selection techniques
- Getting data into your spreadsheet
- Data entry ranges
- Adjust column widths
- Indenting
- Centre aligning
- Merging and centring
- Text Wrap
- The Sum function
- AutoSum
- AutoFill a formula
- Basic formulas
- BOMDAS rule
- AutoCalculate
- Editing formulas
- Copy and paste
- Copy an entire sheet
- Calculating across worksheets
- Copying formulas
- Renaming sheets
- Inserting/deleting a sheet
- Grouping sheets
- The AVERAGE function
- The MAX function
- The MIN function
- Font formatting
- Number formatting
- Borders
- Cell shading
- Format painter
- Adding cell comments
- Inserting columns/rows
- Deleting columns/rows
- Hiding columns/rows
- Freeze panes
- AutoFill sequences
- Quick list sorting
- Basic list filtering
- Selecting data to chart
- Creating a chart
- Changing the chart type
- Switching columns/rows
- Adding titles
- Reposition the legend
- Using chart layouts
- Printing a chart
- Pie chart specifics
- Print preview
- Margins, orientation, scaling
- Page layout view
- Page break preview
- Headers and footers
- Printing titles on all pages
- Setting a print area
- Save as PDF
- Saving to OneDrive
- Opening a file in Excel Online
