Description
Uses for and working with spreadsheets
- The Excel screen including toolbars, formula bar, name box
- Column and row headings
- Workbooks and Sheet tabs
- Uses for Excel (Worksheet, Database & Charting)
- Navigating around a spreadsheet using keyboard & mouse
- Moving between workbooks
- Selecting (or highlighting) cells, columns and rows & entire spreadsheets
- Entering information into workbooks
- Resizing columns.
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Columns, Rows and Cells
- Selecting information: Understanding the mouse cursors used within Excel,
- how to select cells, columns and rows and
- multiple ranges of information,
- how to select cells using the keyboard.
- Copy and Paste: Drag and drop, cut, copy and paste in a worksheet and
- from one worksheet to another and even
- between different software programs.
- Editing cells: Typing and entering information,
- editing existing information and entering the changes,
- using the status bar information,
- escaping out of cells.
- Changing column width and row height for single and multiple columns as well as
- making all the columns the same width and using AutoFit.
- Database: Creating a simple database,
- understanding simple database structure (ideal knowledge for mail merge with Microsoft Word),
- inserting and deleting columns,
- using Undo and Redo options.
- Autofill: Automatically fill numbers, dates, number patterns, days, months and years and much more.
- The fast way to insert sequential numbers and words.
- Learn date formatting (this forms the basis for future calculations based on date format).
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Formulas, Functions and Formatting
- Formulas: Entering formulas using the keyboard, arrow keys and the mouse,
- Understand the importance of relative cells references,
- common formula errors,
- using multiplication and division and how to combine two formulas in one.
- AutoCalculate: Get quick additions and basic functions quickly without having to enter formulas.
- Learn Functions: Introductions to functions and function syntax,
- Autosum, Autosum for several and selected ranges
- Learn other basic functions like Maximum, Minimum, Average and more…
- Functions: Sum function in more detail,
- using the formula bar and editing functions,
- using the F2 key, using Autofill to save a lot of time copying (or filling)
- functions using relative cell references.
- Formatting: This effects the way your spreadsheet looks,
- formatting of lines, colours, shading, and even the format of text and numbers.
- Currency formatting, date and text formatting,
- Merging cells and centering,
- Alignment formatting and text control within single and merged cells,
- Fill colour, font colour and Borders.
- Advanced formatting: Autoformats that allow you to quickly make your spreadsheet look very professional,
- Repeat last action, and format painter make it faster for you to duplicate commands and formatting,
- Using format painter with entire spreadsheets to apply multiple formatting in just a couple clicks.
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