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Introduction to Microsoft Excel

Overview / who should attend and why?

This introductory course to Microsoft Excel is designed for complete beginners, or those who are self taught.  It covers tips to achieve results quickly and is great as a refresher for anybody who has not used the tool in a while or wishes to learn easier ways to do tasks.

Course Objectives

• To provide a structured approach to using the basics of the program
• To explain the commonly used features in a step- by-step manner
• To enable the delegate to learn by doing and through asking questions to solve simple issues

Course Content

• The course is designed to enable the delegate to work through a number of exercises.  It is flexible enough so that questions and examples can be worked through during the day.  The course covers the following basic activities.
• Introduction to the course
• Excel and how to use the menus – getting started
• Using the help function
• Navigating through a worksheet – entering and editing data
• Creating, saving and printing worksheets
• Changing the look of a worksheet and editing
• Calculations with formulas
• Manipulating data, formatting
• Simple tips a techniques to perform task quickly
• Introduction to graphs 

Benefits of Attendance

At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of Excel basics. You will feel more confident using Excel and be able to create a spreadsheet from scratch. Understanding and using some of the built in calculation and formula functionality will allow you to be more productive in your work and home Excel environments. Spreadsheets that you create will be easier to use and look more presentable.

Costs / Duration and Location

• The cost of this training course is £300 for this one day course
• The duration is one day 9:00 till 16:00
• Various dates and locations throughout the UK, please contact us for further information