
Develop confidence in Excel by creating and managing workbooks, importing data, applying formatting, filtering, and essential formulas to summarize and analyze data, plus charts and sparklines.
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Master the MO-210 Microsoft Excel exam by building skills in worksheets, data cells and ranges, tables, formulas, functions, and charts, with downloadable objectives and practice quizzes.
Explore the Microsoft Excel interface in this quick tour, navigating the ribbon, tabs, file menu, and view options, while learning how to open, save, print, and zoom.
Explore how to work with workbooks and sheets, enter data into cells, navigate with Tab, Enter, arrow keys, and mouse, manage ranges, and edit in the formula bar.
Navigate the left side of the home tab in Excel to adjust font and font size, and apply bold, italic, underline, borders, and fill or fore colour via split options.
Master basic editing in Excel by using cut, copy, paste with the clipboard, manage formatting, undo/redo actions, and save with save or save as.
Learn how to import text data into Excel from text files, using delimited versus fixed width formats, the text import wizard, and text to columns to separate data.
Learn to import data from online sources into Excel using data from web or from files, handle protected view, and load data into a table for analysis.
Learn how to search for data in an Excel workbook using find and find all, with options for match case, match entire cell contents, and scope (sheet or workbook).
Master inserting and removing hyperlinks in Excel, linking to places in this document, specific cells or ranges, sheets, or external files, with screen tips and custom display text.
Practice activity one guides you through importing a delimited text file into a workbook, using the text import wizard, find and replace, and inserting hyperlinks to web pages and documents.
Explore the three main Excel views—normal, page break preview, and page layout—and learn to switch between them; adjust zoom from the bottom-right and view page breaks.
Master Excel's page setup to control orientation, scaling, fit to page, and paper size for printable, readable spreadsheets.
Adjust margins in the Excel page setup dialog to control top, bottom, left, and right spacing, and understand header and footer margins for precise print layouts.
Customize headers and footers in Excel using the page layout options, with left, center, and right sections, and include elements like page numbers, dates, file paths, and sheet names.
Customize headers and footers in Excel by inserting a header image (via Bing image search), formatting text and picture properties, and creating a printable watermark.
Set and adjust the print area in Excel via page break preview and the sheet tab, using set, add, and clear print area.
Learn to adjust row height and column width in Excel, manage zoom, auto-fit columns, and hide or unhide columns to keep data visible and prevent hash symbols.
Select multiple items and group worksheets to apply changes across them, using control for noncontiguous selections and shift for ranges, while noting ungrouping and print area limitations.
Learn to set print area from B9 to E10, adjust the print scale to 80%, center margins, and insert date and time with page setup and header/footer in Microsoft Excel.
Customize the quick access toolbar in Excel by adding commands like new workbook and save as, rearranging with up arrows, and removing items via file options.
Explore displaying and modifying workbook content with normal, page break, page layout, and custom views, including print settings, headers, footers, and sheet views for private sorting and filtering.
Learn how to freeze panes in Excel to keep headers visible while scrolling, including top rows and first columns, and set rows to repeat at top for printing.
Modify built-in workbook properties in Excel by using file info to add a title, tags, and categories, and explore advanced properties and custom fields.
Learn how to save workbooks in alternative formats—from xlsx, xlsm, xlsb to csv and pdf—using save as, browse, and F12, while managing macros and choosing active sheet or entire workbook.
Explore notes and comments in Excel to annotate cells privately or in discussions, manage them via the review tab, and convert notes to comments.
Learn to configure excel print settings from file print and the page setup dialogue, including headings, print titles, and page order. Adjust margins, header and footer, gridlines, and print area.
Inspect workbooks for issues via file info check, remove comments and personal data, verify accessibility, and check compatibility across Excel versions, including Power Pivot, pivot tables, charts, timelines, and macros.
Practice activity 3 covers adding the spelling button to the quick access toolbar, freezing panes, adjusting page break preview, checking for personal data, and saving as PDF.
Paste data using special paste options in Excel, selecting values, number formats, or formulas via the paste special dialogue box. Explore paste special features for formats, paste link, and transposition.
Learn to create consecutive numbers and dates with Excel's autofill, explore options like copy cells, fill series, fill formatting, and fill without formatting, and apply across rows and columns.
Learn to insert and delete multiple columns or rows in Excel by selecting contiguous or non-contiguous ranges and using the context menu or the home ribbon, including sheet operations.
Learn to insert and delete cells in Excel via the context menu and insert dialog, including shift cells down or right, while avoiding data misalignment.
Practice activity 4 teaches copying and pasting values with paste special, using auto fill without formatting, and inserting or deleting cells, rows, and columns to manipulate worksheet data.
Learn to use the format painter to copy font, size, color, alignment, and number formats from a source cell to destinations, with single or double clicks and escape to stop.
Learn how to use wrap text in Excel to fit long text within cells, and adjust row height via the home ribbon or the format cells dialogue box alignment tab.
Modify cell alignment, orientation, and indentation in Excel, using left, centre, and right alignment, top, centre, and bottom alignment, and centre across selection.
Merge and centre, merge across, merge cells, and unmerge cells to control how content is combined, keep the upper-left value, and format by row.
Apply common Excel number formats—general, number, currency, accounting—adjust decimals, thousands separators, and negative numbers, and format dates and times using the format cells dialog, locale-aware where needed.
Explore less-common number formats in Excel, including percentage, fractions, mixed numbers, text, special, and scientific formats. Learn to apply them via the Format Cells dialog and handle regional thousands separators.
Explore the format cells dialog box to apply fonts, fills, borders, colors, patterns, and protection, and learn to clear formats and reuse formatting with the format painter.
Apply and customize cell styles in Excel to maintain a consistent look across your workbook. Modify, duplicate, or create styles and adjust font and fill using the Format Cells dialog.
Practice activity 5 demonstrates formatting cells and ranges in Excel: doubling indent, wrapping text, merging across, applying borders, using format painter, applying the Good style, and currency formatting for B4:B7.
Apply conditional formatting in Excel to highlight data and reveal trends in large datasets. Use rules like greater than, text that contains, date occurrences, and duplicates with color formats.
Learn to remove existing conditional formatting, apply top/bottom rules (top 10 items, top 10%, bottom 10%), and highlight cells with colors while watching dynamic changes as data updates.
Explore conditional formatting in Excel using data bars, colour scales, and icon sets; learn to apply, clear, and customize rules, including top/middle/bottom thirds.
Learn to use conditional formatting to spot errors in a multiplication table by highlighting under 10, above average, and bottom 10%, and applying data bars, color scales, and icon sets.
Convert a cell range into an Excel table with headers, customize its name, and switch between table and range using the Table Design tab and keyboard shortcuts.
Learn to add and remove rows and columns in Excel tables, navigate within a table with tab, manage headers, and control automatic table expansion and resizing.
Explore applying and customizing table styles in Excel, using the table design tab to choose light, medium, or dark styles, and adjust first and last column colors and banded rows.
Enable the total row in Excel tables to display calculated totals for the entire table, and use the dropdown to apply sum, min, max, count, or average per column.
Practice activity shows converting a range into a table, applying a table style, adding a total row with count numbers, and converting back to a range on invoice data.
Learn to filter numeric data in Excel tables, using the filter button and number filters (equals, greater than, between), perform multi-column filtering, and clear filters.
Learn to filter text in Excel using text filters such as contains, begins with, ends with, and does not contain, plus custom filters with and/or logic and wildcards.
Master date filters in Excel, using table and range filters with equals, before, after, between, and relative dates like today, apply to non-table data. Explore date hierarchies with a calendar.
Sort data in Excel using single-column and multi-column methods. Learn to add levels with custom sort to place folder before file name and apply color or date sorts.
Practice activity 8 demonstrates filtering and sorting in Excel, using range or table, text filters (begins with, contains), date filters between, and multi-level sorts by difficulty and completion date.
The MO-210 certification is the new certification for Excel. Microsoft says that this certification demonstrates that you have the skills needed to get the most out of Excel by earning a Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps) certification.
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In this MO-210 course:
We’ll start with create and manage worksheets and workbooks. We’ll import data into workbooks, navigate and format workbooks, and prepare them for collaboration and distribution.
We’ll then look at managing data cells and ranges and create tables. We’ll insert data into and format workbooks, summarise and organize data, manage table styles and options, and filter and sort table data.
We’ll then perform operations with Excel formulas and functions. We’ll use functions for summarising data, performing conditional operations, formatting and modifying text, sorting and generating numeric data.
Finally, we’ll look at creating charts and sparklines. We’ll use different chart types, such as line, bar, area and pie charts, we’ll add legends and apply layouts and styles, and insert sparklines.
No prior knowledge is required. And there are 15 Practice Activities, 15 quizzes and a Practice Test to help you remember the information, so you can be sure that you are learning.
Once you have completed this course, you will have an expanded knowledge of Microsoft Excel. With some practice, you could even take the official Microsoft MO-210 exam, which gives you the "Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps)" certificate. This would look good on your CV or resume.
It is also the first stage to you getting the "Microsoft Office Specialist: Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps)" certification.