Virtual Basic Excel Training Course Content

Our virtual basic Excel training course can be run in all versions of Microsoft.

All of our Excel courses are full day courses, and they typically run from 9:30am to 4pm. To break up this long day we allow two coffee breaks and a lunch break throughout the day. Even though we have set timings for the course on our agendas, we can alter them to fit in with your needs. As well as our standard course agendas, we can also create a bespoke course for you tailored to the training needs you have. Just let us know what you need, we’d be happy to help.

Key Content

The key content that is covered in the virtual training course can be found below:

 

  • The Excel Screen Environment
  • Ribbons, Tabs, Customisation
  • Cell Selection
  • Editing, Copy, Cut, Paste
  • Entering Numbers and Text. Cell formatting
  • Shading and borders
  • Cell styles. Formatting Text
  • Inserting columns and rows
  • Simple Formulae. Autosum, Percentages
  • Other Common Functions
  • Headers & Footers
  • Differences between Relative & Absolute References
  • Page setup, Printing & Zoom
  • Other Simple Functions for example freezing, hiding and conditional formatting
  • Exercises throughout

Course Objectives

The objective of this basic Excel course is to allow the trainee to be able to build and edit individual worksheets through learning formatting skills of cells and columns. As well as formatting skills, knowledge of simple mathematical symbols and simple functions in Excel will be developed. Finally the conditional formatting feature will be covered alongside navigational features like freeze panes and hiding.

Comments and Testimonials

Move With Us testimonial – helping train staff in Excel

I had a workshop session with John on a survey report that was taking a considerable amount of time to complete. John explained to us that if we changed how we were initially setting out the data that the production of reports and pivot tables would be much quicker.

The Excel training we had over the course of the next two days was fantastic. John managed to keep us all focussed, he is a very engaging trainer. We were all eager to get back to our desks and start implementing what we’d learnt to make our report running much more efficient.

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Harvey and Brockless – working alongside JPL for training needs

We have worked with John for a number of years now in group environments from basic to masterclass levels, and in 121 sessions tailored around our specific requirements. We’ve seen in this time, our staff grow in confidence and ability through John’s tuition, which has in turn benefitted our company and our staffs’ own development.

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Snow Business testimonial – working alongside staff in Excel

The session was very well structured with a good combination of theory and practical work. It was very useful to do individual examples of each task and the course notes are thorough without being confusing. John was a great teacher and catered for all knowledge levels. The pace of the day was great, at no point did we feel John was moving on too quickly but the sessions didn’t ‘drag’.

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Ashorne Hill – Training staff in Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Excellent training delivery, courses being small in numbers worked very well for our staff, giving them time for any additional questions/content.
Smooth process from start to finish and excellent that trainers could provide individual laptops for staff that didn’t have their own.
Very informative training – we like the fact we can keep notes to refer back to while at work

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Carpet & Flooring – Helping train staff in Microsoft 365 packages

JPL created and conducted a bespoke Excel training program based on our requirements, and both John and Rachel exceeded our expectations in the delivery of this. Delegates were from a variety of departments and had varying levels of experience, yet John and Rachel were accommodating and engaging to ensure this training was effective to all. The team found the training informative, useful to their day job, and fun, and look forward to participating in future courses with JPL

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