
Watch this essential training video to access downloadable exercise files and instructor resources, and learn to download, unzip, and adjust playback for a smoother Excel 2021/365 course experience.
Navigate the backstage area in Excel to manage files, open or save workbooks, print, share, and export, and explore info, document properties, and recovery features.
Launch Excel and pin it to the taskbar. Customize the quick access toolbar with AutoSum, Wrap Text, and Fill, then add a separator and create a blank workbook.
Master the sum function in Excel to add ranges of numbers, use the insert function dialog and auto sum, and troubleshoot warnings about adjacent cells.
Learn to identify and fix name, reference, and div errors in Excel using formula auditing tools like show formulas, trace precedents, and evaluate formula.
Learn to use named ranges in Excel formulas for average, count, min, and max, with IntelliSense and name manager, and format results as British pounds.
Apply and customize Excel themes to quickly change colors, fonts, and effects in your worksheets, using live preview to compare themes and save custom themes for future workbooks.
Format your data as an Excel table to enable auto expansion and built-in filtering. Create tables via format as table or Ctrl+T, then name them meaningfully for charts and pivots.
Explore the basics of logical functions in Excel, using if, and, or to test conditions and return true or false, then assign meaningful outputs like approval or pass.
Learn to tidy messy text in Excel using left, mid, right, proper, trim, clean, and concatenate to split data, standardize case, and merge fields.
Master essential time and date functions in Excel, including today and now, hard-coded dates, workday and networkdays with holidays, and extracting day, month, year, and weekend status.
***Exercise and demo files included***
We've combined our Excel 2021/365 for Absolute Beginners and Excel 2021/365 Intermediate courses to give you the ultimate starter pack to jump-start your spreadsheet journey!
Whether you're an Excel novice or already have some Excel knowledge, this course can help you get the ball rolling. This course bundle will give you a great Excel foundation or build on those skills you already have. It’s also perfect for students who have beginner to intermediate skills in an older version of Excel and are looking to explore the newest features.
Excel 2021 is Microsoft's latest stand-alone version of Excel, which opens up many of the features and functionalities that are available only in Excel 365 through a subscription.
The only prerequisite for this course is a working copy of Excel 2021 or Excel 265.
This course covers:
Becoming familiar with what’s new in Excel 2021
Navigating the Excel 2021 interface
Utilizing useful keyboard shortcuts to increase productivity
Creating your first Excel spreadsheet
Using basic and intermediate Excel formulas and functions
Effectively applying formatting to cells and using conditional formatting
Using Excel lists and master sorting and filtering
Working efficiently by using the cut, copy, and paste options
Linking to other worksheets and workbooks
Analyzing data using charts
Inserting pictures in a spreadsheet
Working with views, zooms, and freezing panes
Setting page layout and print options
Protecting and sharing workbooks
Saving your workbook in different file formats
Designing better spreadsheets and controlling user input
How to use logical functions to make better business decisions
Constructing functional and flexible lookup formulas
How to use Excel tables to structure data and make it easy to update
Extracting unique values from a list
Sorting and filtering data using advanced features and new Excel formulas
Working with date and time functions
Extracting data using text functions
Importing data and cleaning it up before analysis
Analyzing data using PivotTables
Representing data visually with PivotCharts
Adding interactions to PivotTables and PivotCharts
Creating an interactive dashboard to present high-level metrics
Auditing formulas and troubleshooting common Excel errors
How to control user input with data validation
Using WhatIf analysis tools to see how changing inputs affect outcomes.
This course includes:
20+ hours of video tutorials
180+ individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion