Microsoft Excel - Excel for beginners

In the first of our sections, we will look at the layout the Excel . We will take a tour of the Excel Program, highlighting all the main places of interest.

We will look at the most important parts of the program to make sure you can navigate it with ease.

In this section we will look at saving spreadsheets, we will look at the process of saving a spreadsheet in the default manor, and also saving spreadsheets in different file types.

We will also talk about the reasons for saving in different file types.

In this section we will look at the different ways that we can create a spreadsheet, either from the default "blank" template, or from one of Microsoft pre prepared templates.

In this section we will look at the cells that make up an Excel Spreadsheet. We will look at the way we can manipulate cells.

We will look at selecting cells and the different types of information that we can enter into cells.

In this section we will look at searching spreadsheet files to find data and we will also look at replacing data with new content.

We will look at the ways that we can sort data in a spreadsheet. We will look at sorting lists and the different methods that we can use.

We will look at filtering data in a spreadsheet. We will look at the ways we can use filtering to get a better view of only the elements that you wish to see.

In this section we will look at cutting and copying content and pasting it into another area in the same spreadsheet or into a totally different spreadsheet.

We will also look at deleting cell content from cells.

In this section we will look at using the auto fill option in Excel, we will look at the situations that you will use it and the way it can be used.

In this section we will look at the ways we can interact with rows and columns.

We will look at selecting rows and columns, both adjacent and non adjacent.

We will look at inserting and deleting rows and columns and modify the Heights of rows and the widths of columns.

We will also look at freezing and unfreezing columns and rows and the reasons for doing so.

In this section we will look at the way we can use different worksheets in the Microsoft Excel program.

We will look at adding and deleting worksheets, Renaming worksheets.

We will also have a look at moving and copying entire worksheets.

We will also look at giving the worksheet tabs a colour, so that they can be quickly identified.

In this section we will look at absolute cell referencing, the process of setting up your formulas and functions to get the best result with minimum effort.

In this section we will look at some of the most common functions that can be used in spreadsheets.

We will look at the SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT and COUNTA Functions.

In this section we will look at the IF statement and the way it can be used to determine a true or false outcome.

We will look at the different error messages that Microsoft Excel can produce and the meanings to each of them.

In this section we will look at the different types of formatting that we can apply to cells in our Microsoft Excel 2013 spreadsheet.

We will look at formatting cells to display numbers to a specific number of decimal places, to display numbers with, without a separator to indicate thousands.

We will look at copying the formatting from a cell and placing it on another cell so that we can keep formatting uniform.

In this section we will cover charts, will look at creating a chart from spreadsheet data. We will create different types of charts like bar chart, column charts and lie charts.

We will look at selecting the charts, moving and resizing a chart, we will also delete a chart.

Another aspect we will do is the option to change the type of chart we are using, i.e from column to bar chart.

In this last section we will look at printing our finished spreadsheet. we will look at :

Previewing a worksheet and then printing a selected cell range from a worksheet, an entire worksheet, number of copies of a worksheet, we will also look at printing the entire spreadsheet and a chart.

In this lecture, we complete a sample exercise, this exercise will combine everything you have just studied throughout the course. You will need to download the files before hand. You may attempt the exercise first, or watch me doing it on the video as you try to recreate the outcome. 

Free eBook for download, This can be used as a quick reference guide for the course.