Discover the Excel spreadsheet software, master data entry and simple formulas, and format your tables and charts. You will be able to manage large tables by filtering and sorting them, and you will even be able to summarize your data using pivot tables.
Objective: By the end of the course, participants will be able to use the fundamental features of Excel 2021.
Prerequisites: No prior knowledge of Excel is required. Participants only need to be familiar with using a keyboard and mouse.
Target audience: Any beginner user or anyone with basic knowledge who needs to master the fundamental commands of Excel.
1. EXCEL 2021 – LEVEL 1: ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
This module offers interactive training composed of 45 training videos, 45 practice exercises, and 5 additional information points.
• Introduction to spreadsheets
• Opening a workbook
• Overview of the environment
• Navigating within a workbook
• Data entry assistance
• Entering data
• Selection, copying, and moving data
• Selecting and clearing cells
• Undoing and redoing actions
• Column width/row height
• File saving basics
• Saving a workbook
• Editing cell content
• Creating a new workbook
• Entering formulas
• Sum and other simple calculations
• Percentage calculations
• Copying formulas to adjacent cells
• Simple number formats
• Applying a theme
• Highlighting text
• Font and font size
• Cell content alignment
• Cell colors
• Cell borders
• Page setup
• Print preview and printing
• Page breaks
• Print area
• Headers and footers
• Header and footer customization
• Using Excel Help
• Spell checking
• Find and replace
• Zoom display
• Inserting/deleting rows, columns, and cells
• Moving cells
• Copying to non-adjacent cells
• Quick formatting copy
• Merging cells
• Text orientation
• Cell styles
• Data sorting
• Worksheet names and tab colors
• Inserting, deleting, and adding sheet backgrounds
• Moving, copying, and hiding worksheets
• Freeze panes and split windows
• Repeating row/column titles when printing
• Hiding worksheet elements
• Grouping data with outlines
2. EXCEL 2021 – LEVEL 2: INTERMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE
This module offers interactive training composed of 61 training videos, 61 practice exercises, and 5 additional information points.
• Displaying multiple lines in a cell
• Absolute references in formulas
• Copying values, linked copies, and transposition
• Entering calculation functions
• System dates and date formats
• Simple conditions
• Custom formats
• Conditional formatting
• Managing conditional formatting
• Naming cell ranges
• Validation criteria
• Cell ranges in functions
• Introduction to charts
• Creating and moving charts
• Managing charts
• Selecting chart elements
• Adding and deleting elements
• Formatting chart elements
• Editing chart text elements
• Legends and plot areas
• Printing and page setup for charts
• Modifying data labels
• Data series and chart axes
• Managing series
• Chart type options
• Managing chart templates
• Creating 2D map charts
• Creating sparkline charts
• Managing sparkline charts
• Creating graphic objects
• Selecting and deleting objects
• Copying and moving objects
• Resizing graphic objects
• Editing text boxes
• Editing drawings
• Formatting drawing objects
• Inserting images
• Managing images
• Rotating and aligning objects
• Layering and grouping objects
• Flash Fill
• Calculating subtotals
• Creating and managing data tables
• Formatting and sorting data tables
• Adding calculations to data tables
• AutoFilter
• Custom filters
• Blank values and duplicates
• Criteria ranges
• Using criteria ranges
• Filtering and copying rows with criteria ranges
• Statistics using criteria ranges
• Sorting and filtering functions
• Introduction to pivot tables and pivot charts
• Creating pivot tables
• Modifying and adding calculations in pivot tables
• Changing the data source of a pivot table
• Selecting, copying, moving, and deleting within a pivot table
• Structure and printing of pivot tables
• Formatting pivot tables
• Filtering pivot tables
• Filtering with slicers
• Creating pivot tables from multiple tables
• Adding calculated fields or items
• Grouping data
• Creating pivot charts