Microsoft Excel 2016 Level 1

Unlock the power of Microsoft Excel 2016 with our comprehensive beginner course designed for aspiring professionals to master spreadsheet essentials and advance in data management.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand spreadsheet terminology and Excel interface navigation.

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Enter, edit, and save data with fundamental Excel functions.

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Move, copy, and format data efficiently in worksheets.

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Create and modify charts and graphics for data visualization.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Beginner Excel users
  • Data management professionals
  • Administrative assistants
  • Small business owners

Description

​Microsoft Excel 2016 is the most widely accepted spreadsheet tool available today. Students taking the Basic Excel course will familiarize students with spreadsheet terminology and the fundamental concepts of Microsoft Excel 2016, including identifying Excel window components, navigating worksheets, and downloading templates. In addition, students will learn the basics of entering and editing text, values, and formulas, and how to save workbooks in the native Excel format, as well as in other formats. They will learn how to move and copy data and formulas, how to determine absolute and relative references, and how to work with ranges, rows, and columns. Students will also learn how to use simple functions, and how to easily apply formatting techniques to worksheet data. They will create and modify charts, and work with graphics. Finally, they will review workbooks for spelling errors, modify page setup, and print worksheets.

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Course Outline

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Getting started

  1. Spreadsheet terminology

  2. The Excel environment

  3. Navigating a worksheet

  4. Using a template

Unit 2: Entering and editing data

  1. Entering and editing text and values

  2. Entering and editing formulas

  3. Saving and updating workbooks

Unit 3: Modifying a worksheet

  1. Moving and copying data

  2. Moving, copying, and viewing formulas

  3. Absolute and relative references

  4. Inserting and deleting ranges, rows, and columns

Unit 4: Functions

  1. Entering functions

  2. AutoSum

  3. Other common functions

Unit 5: Formatting

  1. Text formatting

  2. Row and column formatting

  3. Number formatting

  4. Conditional formatting

  5. Additional formatting options

Unit 6: Charts

  1. Chart basics

  2. Formatting charts

Unit 7: Graphics

  1. Working with pictures

  2. Conditional formatting with graphics

  3. SmartArt graphics

Unit 8: Printing

  1. Preparing to print

  2. Page Setup options

  3. Printing worksheets

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