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Excel Courses for Beginners

Microsoft Excel logoFor beginners, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can appear complex, difficult, or overwhelming tools to use. However, with a little bit of knowledge and confidence, you can soon start to include this common spreadsheet software in your day-to-day job and will discover that it quickly enhances your record-keeping and calculation skills.

With our Excel Course for Beginners, we’ll introduce you to the basic functions of Microsoft Excel. This course covers the fundamentals including; creating workbooks and worksheets, using formulas, customising your view and shortcuts. Creation, navigation, presentation, and formatting.

Our Excel course for beginners are highly practical and interactive. Our in-person courses take place in our Exeter training suite, where we supply laptops for use during the session. We limit the class size to 8 to ensure our coach has time to deal with any specific queries you may have.

This Excel course for beginners will give you a good overview of how Excel works and how to use it effectively.

You will become familiar with the Excel screen and learn how to customise it for quicker ways of actioning tasks and ease of understanding. Learn to create workbooks and worksheets, from producing simple formulae to developing built-in and linked functions. Learn how to create a professional document with various formatting tasks. Understand how to create charts and work with some of Excel’s Database capabilities all with our Excel Course for Beginners.

Excel Course for Beginners Content

  • Ribbons
  • Quick Access Toolbar
  • Open, Close and Save Files
  • Navigation, Range Selection, Editing/Erasing Data
  • Copy & Paste, Autofill
  • Straight Formulae & Use Of Brackets
  • Autosum & Built In Functions
  • Column & Row Inserting/Deleting, Widths/Heights
  • Alignment, Format Cell Contents, Borders, Fill
  • Page Layouts & Printing
  • Working With Relative & Absolute Cell References
  • Working With Larger Spreadsheets – Freeze Panes
  • Working With Linking Worksheets, Group Mode, Formulae
  • Charting
  • Sorting & Filtering
  • Find and Replace
  • Printing – Page Setup etc
  • Insert, Delete and Rename sheets
  • Move and Copy sheets

Why upskill in Microsoft Excel?

The spreadsheet programme Microsoft Excel, included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications, is commonly used for analysing, sorting, reporting and storing data. Many organisations choose to use Excel because its spreadsheets are simple to use and highly visual.

If you upskill your team with Excel training, you’ll provide them with the ability to organise and manage data more efficiently, saving precious time which can be devoted to other projects. Our Excel training courses for beginners provides effective tips, techniques and formulas that will help individuals make the best use of Excel in your organisation.

Acquiring in-depth knowledge of working with Microsoft Excel functions and formulas will help delegates to use Excel efficiently in their daily work life.

We offer Excel training at three levels:

  • Excel for Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate Level 1
  • Excel Intermediate Level 2

Our Excel Course for Beginners is suitable for anyone who wants to become proficient in the basic commands and use of Microsoft Excel.

It’s for those who have little or limited experience of Excel and want to gain a better understanding of this powerful and most popular Microsoft Office application.

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Crisp Professional Development

Crisp Professional Development, Pynes Hill Business Centre,
Exeter, Devon EX2 5JL

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Excel Course for Beginners
Vegetarian and meat lunch options are provided. Regrettably we are unable to cater for any other specific dietary requirements. If this applies to you, please bring your preferred choice of lunch and snacks with you.
£ 249.00 / 2 Credits

Crisp Professional Development

Crisp Professional Development, Pynes Hill Business Centre,
Exeter, Devon EX2 5JL

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Vegetarian and meat lunch options are provided. Regrettably we are unable to cater for any other specific dietary requirements. If this applies to you, please bring your preferred choice of lunch and snacks with you.
£ 249.00 / 2 Credits

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The quickest way to learn Excel is to use the Help function in the Excel programme itself. There are also plenty of helpful videos online if you are looking for help with a specific function. You should be able to do some of the basics in a couple of hours.