Training/course: Excel 2007/2010 Foundation
Course Description
The first encounter with Excel is an eye-opener for anyone who occasionally has to do some calculations. Imagine that you are working out your foreign holiday expenditure from last year on the back of a cigarette packet and then want to convert your outgoings back into Euros. On paper is this a time consuming calculation, but with Excel it can be done with the click of the mouse. Even the most stubborn technophobe will grasp the usefulness of Excel and this is just a simple example. Now many people think that Excel is too complicated, but this is not so and we can show you how.
If you keep to the few (approximately five) ground rules of Excel then you will still be able to do the most complex of calculations. After learning these ground rules you will find yourself working much more quickly and efficiently, with little effort.
During the training course you will be exposed to and will think up yourself many applications for Excel in your daily life. You will also discover that Excel has enormous potential. If you can think of examples from you work of where you might be able to use Excel, you might find it helpful to bring these to the training course. Your Excel experience will then be practical right from the start.
Course Content
The following subject matter and more will be covered during the course:
- Opening and Closing Excel
- Copying and pasting Worksheets
- Screen layout and tools
- Exploring a Worksheet
- Inputting and changing data
- Saving and reopening a Workbook
- Automatic data input
- Cell structure & Numbers
- Calculations
- Cut, copy and paste functions
- Making and amending charts and graphs
- Page composition & customizing toolbars
Course Prerequisites
No previous experience of Excel is required. Limited experience of Windows is needed and the Windows Foundation course would suffice for any newcomers to computing.
Comments
This Excel training course is given in tutorial form in a class of MS Office students. This means that students will work on their own course and at their own pace under the careful and diligent guidance of a tutor, rather than using a classical lesson with the teacher presenting to everyone at the same time. Only MS Office subjects are dealt with during the Office tutorial class. The tutor will help explain the theory and show you how to work through the course. He or she will be on hand to help you with any problems, give you practical tips and answer your questions. This class-based tutorial system has been tried and tested by us for many years and proves to be a satisfying and rewarding teaching method.
This system has many advantages. Not only does it allow you to learn at your own pace but it also gives you the opportunity to bring with you practical applications for Excel from your own workplace. It is better if you can send these to Learnit before the course by email. Otherwise you can bring it with you on a USB or cd-rom.
All MS Office training courses are given using recent versions of MS Office. Most versions are as good as identical to each other, but the teacher will explain exactly any differences between versions. If you want to take the course using a particular version, you can bring this to our attention on the registration form.
