Microsoft Excel - Foundations
Business skills | Course category:
Duration: 7 hours |
Study mode: Face to face |
n/a Pre-requisites: |
About this course
Would you like to improve your skills with Microsoft Excel?
This course will provide you with a strong foundational knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the essential concepts of working with spreadsheets.
Delivered by an experienced Microsoft Office trainer (in person at our Rozelle Computer Training Lab), this course will take you through the basics and will make you feel more confident with the foundations.
As a participant, on course completion, you will receive a manual to provide you with additional guidance for use in the workplace.
Who should attend?
This course is appropriate for any staff member working with Microsoft Excel.
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the Excel screen
- Insert rows and columns
- Insert tabs/worksheets
- Use scroll bars and split screen
- Save files
- Cut, copy, paste and format painter
- Format: cell fonts, alignment, numbers, width and height, styles, dates versus serial numbers
- Apply themes
- Apply conditional formatting
- Insert tabs, rename and colour tabs
- Set up page orientations, print area, page breaks, print titles, headers/footers
- View worksheets
- Understand page layouts (normal, page layout and page break preview)
- Zoom
- Hide rows/columns
- Freeze panes
- Outline, group and ungroup
- Subtotal after sorting
- Customise views
- Locking cells from change and protecting the sheet
- Share your workbook
- Use workspaces
Course Feedback
Previous participants in this program told us they would recommend this course to others and that they feel more confident using Microsoft Excel.
“Such a great trainer, I was amazed at how much we learnt in one day”.
“Having the manual to work and take home was a real bonus”.
“An excellent course”.