Many Excel users have received little or no formal training to help them use the ubiquitous productivity application. This course can help users who wish to improve their Excel skills to increase their productivity. The material starts by covering fundamental topics such as time-saving tips and keyboard shortcuts and then moves to more advanced areas like conditional formatting and complex formula building. Users looking at the spreadsheets that others design and wishing they could do as much with Excel will benefit significantly by taking this course.
Learning Objectives
• Recognize the many keyboard shortcuts that are available to save time and effort
• Indicate how one would use Excel Templates, Styles, and Themes to add uniformity to workbooks they design or edit
• Indicate how a user can design custom number and date formats to meet their specific needs
• Recognize ways to add security to the workbooks, including workbook encryption and the use of sheet-level, range level and cell-level security features
• Recognize formula-building conventions such as order of operation
• Recall how to troubleshoot formulas that are not working properly
• Recall how to work with functions in the Excel function library to create powerful formulas
Major Topics
• Excel shortcuts and time savers
• Working with templates, formats, styles and themes
• Customizing and enhancing Excel
• Protecting and securing workbooks
• Formula building and the Excel function library
