
Please download the attached file called Excel Shortcut Keys.pdf so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Explore the Excel start screen tour, learn to open a blank workbook or templates, manage recent and pinned files, and customize startup options, including disabling or enabling the start screen.
Explore how cells, rows, and columns organize data in Excel. Learn how worksheets, workbooks, and spreadsheets relate, and how the name box shows a cell address.
Discover how to zoom in and out in Excel using the view tab, presets like 100%, 200%, 50%, zoom to selection, mouse wheel with Ctrl, and keyboard shortcuts.
Customize your Excel view by toggling headings, the formula bar, and the quick access toolbar from view tab. Learn how to hide and show these elements to streamline your workbook.
Learn to hide and unhide gridlines in Excel using the view tab, and cover gridlines in specific cells, columns, or rows by filling with white.
Learn how to customize Excel's ribbon view by hiding and showing the ribbon, showing tabs only, and restoring the full ribbon using the view menu.
Learn to disconnect OneDrive from Excel by turning off cloud autosave, setting save to computer by default, and updating account privacy to disable connected experiences, then restart Excel.
Color code worksheets by assigning tab colors to organize and locate them quickly, using right-click tab color, explore standard and custom colors, or remove color with no color.
Copy worksheets in Excel by using move or copy from the sheet menu, create a copy, and choose where it appears; or hold control and drag to duplicate.
Please download the attached Excel workbook called Managing Rows and Columns.xlsx so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Move rows and columns in Excel using drag-and-drop, choosing to overwrite destination data or swap positions with the shift key, and undo changes with ctrl z.
Please download the attached Excel workbook called Working With Cells.xlsx so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Learn how to add borders to cells in Excel, using bottom, top, left, and right borders, thick and double lines, diagonal options, colors, and format cells for precise table borders.
Please download the attached Excel workbook called Formatting Data.xlsx so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Learn the difference between general, number, currency, and accounting formats, and compare short, long, and custom date formats; see how percentage formatting changes values.
Learn to align text in Excel cells, including left, center, right, and vertical alignments, plus indentation, rotation, and shortcut keys for fast formatting.
Learn to wrap, justify, and distribute text in Excel cells, using the wrap text button, alignment options, and keyboard shortcuts to control how text displays.
Please download the attached Excel workbook called Copying and Pasting.xlsx so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Master paste special transpose in Excel to turn columns into rows and rows into columns, using shortcuts like ctrl+c, ctrl+alt+v, and the transpose option in the paste menu.
Please download the attached Excel workbook called Useful Data Tools.xlsx so you can use it for the lessons in this section.
Learn to use Flash Fill in Excel 2016 and later to auto-fill data from patterns, such as combining names and extracting initials, or day, month, and year from dates.
Remove duplicates from an Excel data table, including employee IDs, departments, names, and bonuses, using the remove duplicates tool; choose whole-row duplicates or IDs-only duplicates, with optional conditional formatting.
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