Anne Walsh – Excel Essentials – build a strong foundation for your Excel journey
Even if you are terrified of Excel
Does this sound familiar?
- You hear all the time that ‘Excel is a great tool’, but you have no idea what that means
- You’ve tried using formulas, but can’t get them to work for you
- No matter what you’ve tried, printing from Excel NEVER comes out the way you want
- You’ve seen people present snazzy Excel charts in a meeting and wondered how they did it
- Excel absolutely terrifies you
So what’s in it for you?
- Excel is one of the most portable skill-sets on the planet: good Excel skills make you immediately more employable!
- Everything is presented in bite-sized chunks, so easy to watch and go back to as often as you want
- Take the course at a time and location of your choosing, no travel or parking issues to deal with
- You don’t need any previous knowledge, but you might find you already know more than you think!
What You’ll Learn In Excel Essentials – build a strong foundation for your Excel journey
Welcome
- Overview and what to expect
- About the instructor
- Let’s meet the Excel environment
- Let us begin
Data Entry
- Introduction to data entry
- Why is data entry so important
- Do’s and don’ts of data entry
- Enter dates and numbers in sequence
- What to do when you see ######
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on data entry
Data Formatting
- Introduction to data formatting
- Formatting text
- Formatting text – alignment
- Formatting numbers
- Copying the formatting from another cell – Using the format painter
- Clearing all formats
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on data formatting
Introduction to Formulas
- Introduction to basic formulas
- Basic formula entry
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Using brackets
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on basic formulas
Fixing Cells
- Introduction to fixing cells aka making it absolute
- Fixing cells
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on fixing cells
- Navigation around Excel
- 4 Lessons
- Excel keyboard shortcuts
- Working with rows and columns
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on navigating in Excel
Basic Functions
- Introduction to basic functions
- Using autosum to create totals
- Basic functions: Max, min, count, average, count, counta
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on basic functions
Creating Charts
- Introduction to charts
- Use recommended charts and clean data
- Chart formatting
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on charts
Worksheets
- Introduction to working with worksheets aka tabs
- Move/copy to another worksheet
- Add/colour/delete/hide/new worksheets
- Creating 3-D formulas i.e creating a formula across worksheets
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on worksheets
Creating Lists in Excel
- Introduction to lists in Excel
- Guidelines on setting up a list
- Sorting by one level
- Sorting by more than one level
- Filtering with text
- Filtering with numbers
- Filtering with dates
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on creating lists in Excel
Printing
- Introduction to printing
- Getting the text to fit
- Adding headings aka using print titles
- Here’s your homework
- Quiz on printing
You’ve done it
- Congratulations and well done – you are part of an elite group that actually finishes courses
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