Microsoft Excel. Unlock insights and tell the story in your data.

This Microsoft Excel short course will help you improve the way you manage and present information, and take the legwork out of calculations and data manipulation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary to create and manage workbooks and covers topics including adding data, editing data, working with formulas, printing and charting It is an ideal introductory course before progressing onto Microsoft Excel Course: Level 2.

We encourage you to use the CCE Excel level self-assessment tool if you are unsure which course level to enrol in.

Aims

This course aims to provide new Excel users with a foundation knowledge of Excel’s core features such as formulas, formatting, navigation, printing and creating charts.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• navigate your way around Excel
• create and work with a new workbook
• open and navigate within workbooks and worksheets
• understand and work with ranges in a worksheet
• understand, create and work with formulas and functions used to perform calculations
• copy and paste data
• understand and use formula cell referencing
• use font formatting techniques
• align the contents of cells in a number of ways
• format rows and columns in a worksheet
• understand and use the number formatting features
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