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Excel Basics: Learn While Creating a Personal Budget
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Excel Basics: Learn While Creating a Personal Budget

Learn the basics of Excel while working on your personal budget project
Created byMicki Harris
Last updated 12/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Getting started from absolute basics - Opening and Saving Excel, Screen navigation, Screen Elements Explained, Typing and Deleting Data
  • Column width and row height
  • AutoSum, Sum function and simple formulas
  • Text and Cell formatting - Borders and shading, Column width and Row height, Wrap Texting, Row and Column Adjustment
  • Number Formatting - Data Types, Currency and Accounting
  • Naming a worksheet
  • Printing - Page Breaks, Margin Settings, Orientation, Scaling, Printing

Course content

6 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 11m total length

  • Introduction1:51

    Hello and welcome to Excel Basics. If you're an Excel beginner (or an intermediate) and want to learn Excel, this is the perfect place for you to start.

    To make the most of this training, please go through these Excel training videos in the sequence in which they have been listed.

    The first section deals with opening Excel and the Excel interface. If you are already familiar with these topics, you might want to skip to Section 2.

    This is your class. If you have any questions, leave a question for me and I will respond as soon as possible (usually within 48 hours).

    There are no formal assignments or quizzes for this course.

    Your assignment is to watch each video and then create your own budget.

    Download the ExcelBasics_CourseGuide.pdf - just about everything covered in this course is available in the course guide.

  • How to Find and Open Excel5:36

    First things first, where is Excel located on your computer? This video covers how to locate the Excel application. The different versions of Excel are also discussed. If you have already been using Excel, you might want to skip this video.

  • Excel Interface2:51

    Excel documents are called workbooks. Each workbook can have an unlimited number of worksheets. If you are new to Microsoft Excel, the terminology used can be a little challenging.

    In this lesson, we will take a look at a spreadsheet’s interface so you understand the most important parts.

    Note that while each version of Excel may have variations, much of this information is applicable to versions 2007 through 2019 of Excel. All videos in this course use Excel 2019.

    Check out the additional resource for this lecture: Excel_Interface.pdf

Requirements

  • You need to have Excel 2007 or later. No Previous Knowledge of Excel Needed.
  • Users of Mac Excel will be able to follow along for about 80% of the demos, but there are some features that I will show that are Windows PC specific. All demos will be shown on a Windows PC.
  • Students need to have a beginner understanding of Windows operating system or Mac OS.

Description

The best way to learn Excel is to jump right in and start on a project. What better project than creating a personal budget. Follow along with each video as I guide you through the project, step-by-step.

I could take you through each feature of Excel that I feel you should know as a beginner. And it might make sense - until you try to put it all together with your own project. At the end of this course, you will a have a working knowledge of Excel and a usable spreadsheet - your budget!

This course is packed with information, but is is also kept simple. You will not be buried in complicated or exhaustive explanation that cause confusion.

Each detail is broken down into sizable chunks, which makes it easy for you to move along at your own pace.

You are encouraged to ask as many questions as you like regarding the course and project.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is designed for anyone who has the desire to learn Excel and has little or ZERO prior experience.

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