Excel 2007 - Introductory

Spreadsheets can process complex numerical data quickly, simply and accurately. Whether monitoring sales by customer or by product, or keeping track of business spending, the powerful tools within Excel 2007 can help any organisation to work more efficiently and have the information to take better business decisions.

This course will help complete beginners master the basics of using spreadsheets. It gives a simple, no-nonsense introduction to what Excel 2007 is and the sort of business tasks that it can help with.

Excel 2007 Introductory has been specifically developed for complete beginners with no prior knowledge of spreadsheet software. The course will also be helpful for those with very basic experience in previous versions of Excel who are new to Excel 2007.

This course is appropriate for staff at all levels within any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not need any prior experience.

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

• Identify Excel’s screen components
• Open, save and close workbooks
• Move and copy data
• Work with simple formulae, functions and ranges
• Change the appearance of a worksheet using formatting features
• Print single worksheets and entire workbooks

This course provides an ideal introduction to organising and analysing business data using Excel 2007.

Featuring clear, step-by-step instructions and reproductions of actual Excel 2007 screens, the course shows you how to create a new workbook, how to enter text and numbers and how to use a range of formulae and functions to make worksheet calculations.

As you work through the course, you’ll complete a series of simple exercises and work with actual Excel 2007 spreadsheets.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. The course is available for six months from the date first accessed.