Basic Excel Training Course Content

Our Basic Excel training course can be carried out in the following versions: 2010, 2013, 2016 and 365.

All of our courses are full day courses, typically running from 9:30am to 4pm with two coffee breaks and a lunch break throughout to break up the course. Timings can be slightly flexible though to fit in with your needs. We can also create a bespoke course to tailor the contents of the course to your needs. Just ask, we’d be happy to help.

Key Content

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

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

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to enable the trainee to create and format individual worksheets learning how to use simple cell and column formatting skills. In addition there will be considerable emphasis placed upon the simple mathematical symbols and simple functions used in Excel. Navigational procedures like hiding and freezing will be covered along with conditional formatting.

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Basic Excel Training Course

Our Basic Excel training course can be carried out in the following versions: 2010, 2013, 2016 and 365.

Key Content

Course Objectives

Comments and Testimonials

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