Excel Introduction

This one-day course is appropriate if you have not used Excel before, if you are self taught, or if you mainly use workbooks created by someone else and would like to improve your understanding of the techniques and features of Excel so you can be more efficient when using it to develop your own Excel documents.

Audience Profile

It is assumed attendees have good general computing skills and are familiar with the Windows environment.

At Course Completion

At the completion of the course you should be able to create a well presented multi-worksheet workbook that uses formatting and formulas and includes a chart.

Note: This course covers Excel versions 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Course Topics

introductory spreadsheet concepts
the Excel interface
creating and saving workbooks
formatting cells
page setup of a workbook
printing worksheets or workbooks
using simple formulas such as SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT etc
autofill and autoformat
handling dates
using data series
creating charts from your data
formatting charts
understanding relative and absolute replication
creating your own formulas
using built-in functions
naming cells