
Start with a practical Excel primer, covering cells, ribbons, input, edit, and move data, formatting, printing, and charts, with the course workbook and exercises.
Explore the basics of Microsoft Excel in this introductory module, from opening the program and navigating the layout to storing information, calculating values, and presenting data to reveal trends.
Explore workbooks and worksheets, the book and pages of a spreadsheet, and learn about cells, columns, and rows.
Open Excel via the start button, search box, or most recently used list, and pin it to the taskbar or start menu for quick access.
Select cells to create a cell range, and learn how columns and rows form each cell reference like e10. Hover over top tabs to preview their functions.
Open new and existing workbooks in Excel, understand that a workbook is the Excel file itself, and learn how to save multiple workbooks and access recent documents.
Open, edit, and save Excel workbooks using save, save as, and the recent and pinned features for quick access and safe file management.
Master spreadsheet navigation in Excel by switching worksheets, selecting and editing the active cell, and zooming in or out to access text, figures, and other areas.
Navigate your workbook through cells, rows, and columns with scroll bars or the mouse wheel. Add, delete, rename, and move sheets; type in cells; resize columns; and adjust zoom.
Discover how to access Excel's built-in help, including online articles and offline help files, and watch a video on using the help feature.
Explore how to get help in Excel by hovering over commands for tooltips, pressing F1 for help, and using the Help button to access topics like conditional formatting and formulas.
Explore the Excel interface, focusing on the ribbon and its tabs, the quick access toolbar, and the home, inserts, page layout, formulas, data, and review tabs.
Explore how to customize the quick access toolbar in Excel, adding your most-used tools from the home and insert tabs for access. Learn to move the toolbar below the ribbon.
Learn to customize the quick access toolbar and file menu in Excel, adding save, undo, redo, quick print, and new, and manage commands from the Excel options screen.
Master the Excel home tab, learning copy and paste, formatting options, cell alignment, and styles, plus common worksheet commands and functions for efficient spreadsheets.
Explore the home tab in Excel, navigate the clipboard, font, and alignment groups, apply currency and percentage formats, add borders, merge and center titles, and apply built in cell styles.
Explore the insert tab to add charts, illustrations, hyperlinks, symbols, sparklines, and apps, and learn the basics of commonly used elements.
Explore the insert tab in Excel to add charts and smart art graphics, then resize, reposition, and style them using chart tools.
Explore the page layout tab to set up your documents, arrange objects on the spreadsheet, control printing, and enhance style and presentation of the sheet.
Explore the Excel page layout tab to adjust printing, margins, orientation, and page breaks, apply themes including the Apex theme, and arrange charts and SmartArt graphics for a polished spreadsheet.
Explore the formulas tab to leverage the library of functions, categorize them with book icons, and use range tools, named ranges, and formula auditing to verify accuracy and totals.
Explore the formulas tab in Excel, including the function library, auto sum, and date and time functions, and learn to audit and trace formulas.
Explore the data tab to store large datasets, import and manage data from other programs, and sort or filter large tables to analyze information using remove duplicates and data validation.
Explore the data tab in Excel, import external data, manage connections, sort and filter by column, and use outline group to show/hide grouped columns and rows for quick data views.
Explore the review tab in Excel to finalize your workbook with proofing tools, comments, and protection. Learn to share and distribute accurately to colleagues or customers.
Explore the review tab to spell-check workbooks, correct misspellings, ignore or add terms to the dictionary, add cell comments, and protect workbook structure to prevent adding or deleting sheets.
Explore the basics of Excel, including entering data, simple formatting, and creating basic spreadsheets. Learn to perform simple calculations, copy and move data, and print cleanly.
Explore the basics of working with Excel, including columns, rows, cells, and ranges, and learn how to delete rows and columns, undo, redo, and repeat the last undo action.
Learn how to select and edit cells, rows, and columns in Excel. Insert, delete, and color ranges, and use undo, redo, and shortcuts to repeat actions.
Explore ways to move data in Excel, including cut, copy, and paste, drag and drop, and inserting copied cells, with options to overwrite existing data.
Move data in Excel using cut, copy, and paste, and use right-click paste options. Insert copied cells with shift down or delete, and drag-and-drop to reorder.
Explore handy Excel features that save time, such as auto fill for consecutive dates, auto sum for adding values without formulas, and auto complete for repeating entries.
Explore basic Excel features like auto fill, auto complete, and auto sum to quickly build tables, resize columns, manage stock, and calculate totals and averages.
Explore smart tags and option buttons in Excel, including auto fill behaviors, error alerts, and paste options, and learn how to apply copy cells, paste values, and paste formats.
Explore auto fill and auto fill options to control sequences or copy cells. Learn to use smart tags and option buttons, troubleshoot value errors, paste values, and transpose data.
Explore simple editing tools in Excel to clean, clear, and format your workbook. Sort data in columns or tables and use Find and Replace to correct and locate information.
Explore editing tools in Excel, including clear options, sort and filter, and find and replace. Learn to manage data formatting and organize spreadsheets with these home tab features.
Explore how formatting tools in Excel improve clarity and presentability of workbooks, tables, and charts, using color cues and corporate themes to highlight analysis like sales dips.
Explore formatting in Excel by adjusting text and cell sizes, including row and column dimensions. Adjust cell alignment, create custom formats, and rotate text to refine worksheet presentation.
Master cell formatting in the home tab by adjusting font, color, borders, and alignment; resize columns, rotate text, wrap text, and merge cells via format painter.
Learn how conditional formatting identifies values that meet set criteria, highlighting data to analyze spreadsheets and flag stock levels under 10 in red for easy reordering.
Explore conditional formatting in Excel to highlight months under 5000 units with red fill and text, and visualize top values with data bars and color scales.
Apply color, patterns, borders, and chart effects to enhance worksheet visuals and align with a corporate theme. Use built-in styles and themes to match your company color scheme.
apply built-in theme colors and color schemes to ensure consistency across documents, customize and save your own theme colors, and use cell styles and charts to enhance the worksheet appearance.
Explore the Excel interface, learn how to manage multiple windows and files, and set up printing options to ensure the document prints correctly and presents well.
Explore the view tab in Excel to manage the interface and workspace, switch between normal, page break preview, and page layout view, and learn about headers, footers, and zoom.
Use the view tab's page break preview and page layout view to control how your spreadsheet prints. Drag blue page breaks to include totals and adjust orientation for multi-page results.
Explore the view tab in Excel, adjusting zoom from 50% to 125% and using zoom to selection. Show or hide grid lines and the formula bar, and navigate workbook views.
Learn to manage a single Excel window by freezing panes to lock headings, and use split to view multiple areas at once, improving navigation and comparison within one spreadsheet.
Master Excel view management by applying freeze panes for the top row or first column, and using splits to scroll multiple areas of a large database.
Explore how to manage multiple files in Excel by switching between workbooks, arranging them in layouts, and comparing them side by side, while resetting window positions from the View tab.
Learn to manage multiple workbooks in Excel by switching between windows, using the view tab to switch windows, and arrange all to tile side by side for quick price lookups.
Learn to print Excel workbooks using the file (backstage) and page layout options, and set page size, orientation, margins, and headers or footers to fit data on one page.
Master Excel printing by adjusting page layout, margins, orientation, scale, and print areas, and set headers, footers, and repeating rows or columns for active sheets.
Explore advanced printing options in Excel, including scaling data to fit pages, repeating the header row on every page, and setting specific print areas to print selected regions.
Learn to set up page layout options in Excel, repeating top rows and left columns on every page, define print areas, and adjust scaling and landscape orientation for multi-page output.
Explore how to create and use charts in Excel to visualize data and gain insights, including basic setup, the recommended charts feature in Excel 2013, and options for older versions.
Explore Excel’s charting basics, learn why charts visualize data, and set up charts by selecting data, including recommended charts and standard charts from the insert tab.
Learn to customize a chart in Excel by using the design tabs and chart elements to enhance and perfect its appearance.
Select data and create charts, customize with chart elements, move charts to new sheets, adjust data labels and legend, switch row/column data, and apply styles.
Choose built-in chart styles and customize elements using the format tab to tailor titles, legends, colors, and backgrounds. Increase the chart title font size with the normal font size button.
Learn to customize charts in Excel using the design and format tools, change chart types like pie, adjust legends and colors, and refine backgrounds and text to fit your data.
Master intermediate Excel by saving and securing workbooks, using functions and formulas, and applying filtering, sorting, and deduplication when merging sheets. Build graphs and sparc lines to elevate data analysis.
Explore advanced file tasks in Excel, learning how to save and distribute documents, manage compatibility with older versions, apply security to lock edits, and enable accessibility.
Organize files with a clear folder structure using Windows Explorer to save and locate documents efficiently, move and manage items, and leverage recent documents to speed up retrieval.
Explore saving and file management in Excel 2013, including using the open dialog, creating new folders, saving copies in a designated folder, and copying files via explorer-like features.
Explore converting and encrypting files in Excel, learn saving options, auto recover, version history, and protecting workbooks with passwords, plus compatibility across Excel versions.
Explore Excel backstage options for saving, recovery, and default formats, then protect, encrypt, sign, and convert workbooks across older and newer formats with compatibility checks.
Explore file properties and key information like file size, creation date, and author to manage Excel documents and plan sharing large files via email.
View and edit file properties in the info panel, adjusting titles, tags, and categories to manage Excel workbooks and reduce size by compressing images.
Explore file accessibility and compatibility in Excel by using inspection tools to detect issues, remove comments before sharing, and ensure charts have alternate text for screen readers.
Explore how to check for issues and accessibility in Excel workbooks before sharing, using document inspector to remove hidden data and comments, add alternate text to images, and rename sheets.
Explore formulas with relative references and how auto fill copies formulas down or across, adjusting rows and columns (e.g., profit = B2 minus C2), and introduce absolute references.
Learn how absolute cell references keep a specific cell fixed in formulas; use dollar signs to fix the column, row, or both, and copy formulas across or down.
Learn how absolute references lock cells in Excel formulas, using a price times quantity and a 15 percent profit example, while dragging shows relative references by default.
Explore how to use Excel functions and function arguments to perform calculations, including sum, average, rand between, and count if, with a focus on auto sum.
Master autosum in Excel by using sum and average functions to total monthly sales, select proper data ranges, and apply auto sum across rows, columns, and grand totals.
Explore the if function and nested ifs in excel, mastering the test-based structure using equals and if and then brackets to handle multiple outcomes.
Use if and nested functions in Excel to build real-world bonuses and grade calculations. Learn how to set up logical tests, true/false outcomes, and absolute references to drive dynamic formulas.
Learn how named ranges simplify Excel formulas by replacing cell references with meaningful names, making formulas easier to understand and fix when copied across sheets, and supporting expansion in tables.
Learn to create and use named ranges in Excel, such as 'markup' for the 15% markup and 'Jan_totals' for January totals, enabling workbook-wide, absolute references in formulas.
Explore array functions in Excel, using sumif and averageif to analyze a whole range of cells by criteria. Compare built-in array functions with manually entered control-shift formulas.
Learn to use sumif, averageif, and countif in Excel 2013 to sum, average, and count by product criteria with range and criteria examples.
Learn to build array formulas in Excel to compute total sales by multiplying units sold by unit prices across arrays, then use sum and sumif to aggregate by person.
Explore how to audit and evaluate Excel formulas, troubleshoot errors, and use trace precedents and trace dependents to identify root causes.
Master formula auditing in Excel by tracing dependents and precedents across worksheets, identifying broken links, and correcting references and errors such as spaces in sheet names and divide-by-zero issues.
Whether you’re a brand new Excel user who wants to go from the basics to the highest level you can manage, or an existing user who’d like a combined “best practice” refresher, skills enhancer and a reference for the future, this is the choice for you!
With every ZandaX Microsoft course, you get a workbook and exercises (downloadable from the “General Introduction” module at the start of each course). These are NOT "follow along" exercises to use during the course, but new exercises you can use afterwards to practice the skills using different examples. People tell us this is a better way to learn because it provides an opportunity to work with new data.
Our Microsoft instructors are seasoned professionals - they don't just know the software: they've used it commercially and taught it in a classroom environment for years. You won't be in better hands!
And we don’t waffle! Do you want to sit through hours of over-explaining before you get the knowledge you need? We doubt it! So we make sure that everything is covered in easy-to-follow video lessons, and we get to the point so you make the best use of your time.
The Introduction course takes you from the very basics in opening and saving workbooks, using the different tabs, working with data and editing data, formatting sheets, reviewing workbooks and creating charts.
The Intermediate course starts with file management, encryption and accessibility, before moving on to functions and formulas. It teaches you about using tables, data tools like validation, before moving on to more advanced charts and finishing with SparkLines.
The Advanced course really does take you to another level. It begins with grouping, outlining and subtotals before showing you how to perform What If Analysis, use PivotTables, perform advanced tasks before teaching you about HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP functions. If that wasn’t enough, it finishes with one of out most popular lectures: an introduction to Macros.
Finally, in the Professional course you’ll learn about advanced ways of using conditional formatting, LOOKUPs, more functions and PivotTable tools. There’s a lecture on form controls and templates, and the final section introduces you to User Defined Functions (UDFs) using VBA.
Each lecture is self-contained, so you don’t need to sit through them all: once you’re at a comfortable level, you’ll be able to use this as your reference library, where you can select what you want to view.
We’ll say it again: don’t forget the course workbooks and exercises – downloadable with the first “General Introduction” module at the start of each course – which really enhance and deepen your learning. Remember that practice makes perfect!
So although this is offered as a single course, it’s genuinely four courses in one – there are no shortcuts or reduced features. We don’t think you’ll find better value, so why not stop wondering which course to choose, and enroll with us now!