Excel for Beginners

Overview:

This course is suitable for those who do not have a sound basic working knowledge of excel.

Goals and Objective:

This course is designed for staff who desire to gain the necessary skills to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft Office Excel 2013 worksheets.

To develop and improve the users understanding of working with spreadsheets and the various ways spreadsheets can be formatted.

Content:

After completing the workshop the user will be able to:

  • Open Microsoft Excel 2007
  • Open existing documents and create new documents
  • Enter, edit and delete text
  • Select cells and format information
  • Insert new rows into the spreadsheet
  • Create formulae
  • Make use of the Auto fill feature
  • Format the appearance of the spreadsheet including text, cell sizes and alignments and placing borders on cells
  • Adjust print settings and print the spreadsheet
  • Add text boxes, and comments to cells
  • Cut copy and paste information
  • Import worksheets into your spreadsheet
  • Linking Worksheets
  • Other functions within Excel
  • Create charts
  • Format charts
  • Freeze columns and rows.

Course Content

Activity 1 /
  • Creating a simple spreadsheet Entering data
  • Editing the worksheet
  • Formulae

Activity 2 /
  • Basic Formulas
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division

Activity 3 /
  • Developing the Worksheet
  • Naming the worksheet
  • More formulae

Activity 4 /
  • Changing the look of the worksheet
  • Changing fonts
  • Changing cell dimensions
  • Alignment
  • Adding a border

Activity 5 /
  • Printing the spreadsheet
  • Print preview
  • Scaling the print
  • Changing the set-up

Activity 6 /
  • Editing the worksheet
  • Clearing and deleting cells

Activity 7 /
  • Comments
  • Adding comments and text boxes to a spreadsheet

Activity 8 /
  • Copying and Pasting
  • Copying and Pasting headings in Excel

Activity 9 /
  • Importing worksheets
  • Linking worksheets
  • Source worksheets
  • Dependent worksheets
  • Paste special

Activity 10 /
  • Common Functions
  • Introduction to the more common functions such as Average, Count, Max and Min

Activity 11 /
  • Creating a chart
  • Creating a column chart
  • Formatting a chart

Activity 12 /
  • Freezing panes
  • Freezing columns or rows in a large spreadsheet

The user will be able to do all of the above as specified in the course exercises using Microsoft Excel 2010.