Excel 2010-Basics

About the Class:

This workshop lasts 3 hours.

It is part of the following certificates series: Office 2010 Productivity  Excel 2010 End-User.

Excel is the most-used spreadsheet and analysis application today. This workshop introduces basic Excel features such as entering various types of data, working with common formulas and functions, and creating a simple chart. Formatting a worksheet and importing a text file are also covered. Although this workshop is intended for the spreadsheet novice, participants with some previous spreadsheet experience may gain a better understanding and learn some new tricks to increase their efficiency in using Excel.

What You’ll Learn:

• Become familiar with spreadsheet terminology
• Enter various types of data into a worksheet
• Work with formulas and functions
• Create a simple chart
• Import tab-delimited data into excel
• Format cells and ranges
• Create named ranges and use them in formulas
• Customize printouts

What You Need to Know:

• Use a mouse
• Open and close windows
• Open and save files
• Switch between applications

If you don’t have those skills, consider first taking the workshop:

Windows: Basic Computing Skills

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