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Master the basics of Microsoft Excel on our 1-day Excel Essentials training course.
Our friendly, certified Excel trainers will have you confidently Excel in no time.
✔ A complete beginners’ Excel course that covers all of the basics.
✔ Plenty of one to one attention and time to ask questions.
✔ Friendly expert trainers, small groups (average of 4) and a comfortable place to learn.
Looking for a more advanced Excel course? See our other Microsoft Excel courses.
Lucinda is our usual trainer for our introduction to Excel course. She has been training Microsoft Excel for over 20 years.
She is a certified Microsoft Office trainer, a certified life coach and also works as a teaching assistant working at a primary school one day per week.
This course includes plenty of chances to practice so that you can consolidate what you learning.
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The first session in this course focuses on showing you how to find your way round Excel. It explains how you navigate around the screen and how you access the many functions and tools that Excel contains.
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This session gets you using spreadsheets for the first time, and shows you how to create, input data into and save a workbook. It also shows you how to format the data that you have put into Excel and spell check it for typos.
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This session focuses on explaining how to work with the cells in a spreadsheet. It shows you how to select specific areas of a spreadsheet (including areas that aren’t continuous) or to select whole rows or columns.
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Now that you are comfortable working with the basics in spreadsheets the course shows you how to work with the data in your spreadsheet. It leads you through editing your data, deleting your cells or whole spreadsheet and finally the undo function that Excel contains.
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Excel allows you to share your workbook with other users on the same network and on OneDrive and have multiple people editing it. Changes are saved when you close your document and you will be able to see other users’ changes when you re-open. With just one working file it disposes of the need to email a spreadsheet between team members and then try and merge the changes and see changes that others have made.
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Excel contains a very useful function called Fill. It allows you to very quickly create a series of entries in a series ( e.g. 1,2,3,4,5 .. 45,46..) just by entering the initial numbers of the series.
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The ability of Excel to manipulate data by using formulas is one of its key properties. This session is a gentle introduction to formulas explaining how they work and introducing some of the simpler, standard formulas that Excel contains.
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Another key part of working with and understanding formulas in Excel is referencing. Formulas must draw the information that they use from somewhere. Usually this is a cell in the spreadsheet. Ensuring that the formulas always work with the correct pieces of information even when they are cut and pasted is key. This session explains how referencing works and how to ensure that your formulas work with the correct information.
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As you can in other Microsoft Office programs, Excel allows you to format the font, background and other text effects of your text very flexibly. This session will show you all of the different possibilities that Excel has to offer.
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When you are working with a spreadsheet it is very likely that you will work with other types of data than just text. Most likely your spreadsheet will contain numbers, dates, fractions, currency and possibly other items. Excel will allow you to format each of these types of data appropriately so that it is easy to read and obvious to the user what type of data they are looking at.
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This session focuses on how to apply, remove and format options on cell borders. Borders are a very useful way to help users navigate the information held in a spreadsheet. This session will show you how to use Excel’s functionality to apply them quickly.
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Each spreadsheet is held within a worksheet. Just as there are a number of options to manipulate and customise the appearance of a cell, there are a number of ways that the appearance of a whole worksheet can be manipulated. We will show you how to make sure that your worksheets are formatted and structured exactly how you would like them to be.
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Once you have created your spreadsheet and used it to store and manipulate your data you will want to print it out at some point. This session introduces the basics of printing from Excel.
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This final session of the course goes into more detail on printing in Excel. It shows you how to control things like margins, the orientation of your page and the background of your printed area.
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Don’t worry, you don’t need any previous experience with Microsoft Excel to attend this course.
This course is designed for people who haven’t used Excel before.
To attend you only need a basic understanding of working with computers and Windows. If you can work with multiple windows, navigate the desktop, and know how to save a file you’ll be absolutely fine.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you? Our Excel course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
Once you have completed this course you will be ready for our Excel Intermediate course.
Our courses included everything that you need for a really productive day of training.
Our courses run from 9.30am to roughly 4.15pm with refreshments and biscuits throughout the day and a break for a tasty, freshly prepared lunch.
We offer a relaxed, supportive learning environment, fully air-conditioned training facilities and some of the nicest instructors on the planet.
Also, you’ll receive:
✔ A full-colour A4 manual to keep which covers everything in the course.
✔ A USB stick so that you can take your course exercises home with you.
✔ A Certificate of Attendance.
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