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Microsoft Excel – Level 1
This session will provide you with the essential skills to get started with Excel. You will learn to handle text and data entry, format, print and use entry level or basic formulas to perform calculations.
Recommended Duration
Approx. 1 Day (6 Hours)
Excel Level 1 Topics
Getting started with Excel
- Tour the screen
- Navigate in Excel
- Select Data
- Enter Data
- Working with Cells, Columns and Rows
- AutoFill
- Find and Replace
- Spell Check
- Save a Workbook
- Use Excel Help
Performing Calculations
- Create Basic Calculations and Formulas
- Understand BODMAS or PEDMAS
- Use Basic Functions
Sum Average Max Min Count
- Use AutoSum, AutoAverage, AutoMax, AutoMin
- Calculate with Functions
- Copy and Fill Formulas and Functions
- Create an Absolute Reference (F4)
Formatting a worksheet
- Change Font Size and Type
- Add Borders and Colour to Cells
- Change Column Width and Row Height
- Merge Cells together
- Apply Number Formats ($, %, Date, etc)
Developing a workbook
- Format Worksheet Tabs
- Reposition Worksheets in a Workbook
- Insert and Delete Worksheets
- Copy and Paste Worksheets
- Copy a Workbook
Printing workbook contents
- Select what you want to print
- File > Print
- Select your print options
(Print selection only?)
- Create a Headers and a Footers
- Set Page Margins
- Change Page Orientation
- Print
Customising layout
- Split a Worksheet
- Arrange Worksheets
- Freeze and Unfreeze Rows and Columns
- Hide and Unhide Worksheets
Extras: Notes, Comments, Conditional Formatting, Intro to Charts (F11), Sparklines
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In this course you learn how to: Audit and analyse formulas in a spreadsheet to better understand them. Protect and share Excel files so more than one person can work on them at the same time. Create PivotTables and PivotCharts to better analyse data contained in long lists. Share Excel data with other applications.
Recommended Duration
Approx. 1 Day (6 Hours)
Excel Level 3 Topics
Auditing worksheets
This lesson shows you quick ways to determine where your formulas derive their data from and what other formulas your figures might impact. Learn to use The Watch Window to track various formulas within your workbook as you change data.
- Trace Cell Precedents
- Trace Cell Dependents
- Locate Errors in Formulas
- Watch and Evaluate Formulas
- Group and Outline Data
Collaborating with others
This lesson covers how to protect access to your spreadsheets and data with passwords. Learn to share your
workbook so others can work on it at the same time.
- Protect Files, Worksheets and Workbooks
- Share and co-author a Workbook
Analysing Data
This lesson helps analyse your data using Excel's built in tools.
- Create Scenarios
- Use Goal Seek and The Solver
- Develop a PivotTable or PivotChart Report
- Install and use The Analysis ToolPak
Working with multiple workbooks
This lesson demonstrates ways to consolidate data across multiple workbooks and how to create and manage links across workbooks.
- Consolidate Data from multiple sources
- Link Cells in Different Workbooks
- Edit Links
Import and Export Excel options
This learn explains how to import and export Excel data to and from other programs and how to tweak Excel’s options.
- Export to Microsoft Word
- Import a Word Table
- Import Text Files
- Create Custom Toolbars and Buttons
- Update a Workbook's Properties
- Modify Excel's Default Settings
Extras
- Copy Data and Charts to Word or PowerPoint
- Link Data and Charts to Word and PowerPoint
- Create Workbook Templates
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