Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Excel Refresher Essentials

Course Duration: 90 Minutes

Target Audience:

This session is designed for those who have not used Excel in a long time or are intermittent users and would like to refresh their key skills in Excel.

Course Objectives:

To develop a good working knowledge of Excel to include features such as basic functions and formulas, sorting and filtering data, formatting and printing spreadsheets.

Course Outline:

Course Introduction

Microsoft Excel Basics

  • Creating a new Workbook and new Worksheet
  • The Excel screen and user environment
  • Entering data into a Worksheet, and managing columns and rows
  • Formatting information to look professional
  • Printing the information and using Print Preview
  • Saving and closing a Workbook
  • Opening existing Workbooks
  • Creating standard formulas
  • Formula concepts within Excel
  • The four different mathematical operators
  • The order of operators within a formula
  • Editing formulas in-cell and using the Formula Bar
  • Using Copy & Paste, and the Autofill feature
  • Understanding Relative and Absolute cell referencess
  • What is are Functions in Excel?
  • Using Standard Functions - Sum, Average, Max, Min, and Count

Discussion and Question Time