Excel 2007 Part 1

Aims and Objectives
To teach the Excel 2007 program to an employable level and to cover the City & Guilds Spreadsheet Processing Techniques Intermediate exam as well as part of the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist test (MCAS) and ECDL Advanced (Word Processing) exam.

Target Audiences
Those who wish to learn this popular spreadsheet program

Prerequisites
Familiarity with the Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience

Course Content
Lesson 1: Including: The opening Excel 2007 screen, creating a worksheet with text and numbers, entering simple formulas, adjusting column widths, editing cells, navigating a workbook and worksheets, using AutoSum, saving, naming and closing a workbook, adding a button to the Quick Access Toolbar, opening an existing worksheet, accessing Help in Excel.

Lesson 2: Including: Formatting text, changing font type and size, using the mini toolbar, changing the font colour, selecting cells and ranges, aligning text horizontally, merging and splitting cells, formatting numbers, printing the active sheet, creating a folder, saving in a different format.

Lesson 3: Including: Inserting and deleting rows, hiding and unhiding rows and columns, modifying column widths and cell heights, aligning cells vertically, wrapping and indenting text, adding colour to cells and ranges, applying borders to cells and ranges, moving and copy cells, undo and redo, cut, copy and paste, AutoFill.

Lesson 4: Including: AutoComplete, text orientation, selecting non-adjacent data, freezing and unfreezing panes horizontally and vertically, using Zoom, page break preview, naming and renaming a worksheet, inserting a worksheet, repositioning worksheets, deleting a worksheet.

Lesson 5: Including: Using styles to enhance a worksheet, creating a custom style, the Page Layout ribbon, using themes to enhance a worksheet, creating and deleting a custom theme, page orientation, adjusting margins and scaling, centring the sheet horizontally and vertically, print preview, displaying gridlines, printing row and column headings, setting and clearing a print area.

Lesson 6: Including: Inserting headers and footers, copying and pasting data between worksheets, grouping and ungrouping worksheets, creating a new workbook, switching between workbooks, viewing multiple workbooks, hiding and unhiding a workbook, saving as a template, creating a workbook from a template, using existing templates and online resources.

Lesson 7: Including: More complex formulas, absolute as well as relative cell references, AutoCalculate, functions SUM, DATE/TIME, COUNT, IF, adding, viewing and editing comments.

Lesson 8: Including: AVERAGE, MAX and MIN functions, sort columns using ascending and descending order, the PMT and FV functions, entering formulas into grouped worksheets, recognising errors, using the IFERROR function, using 3D referencing to link worksheet data.

Lesson 9: Including: Inserting charts, changing chart type, formatting a plot area, formatting a data series, inserting and resizing a picture, applying picture effects, aligning multiple objects, inserting WordArt, inserting and modifying a drawing object, creating and modifying SmartArt.

Lesson 10: Including: Using Spell check, using Filter to display specific data, finding and replacing text within a worksheet, saving a workbook as a web page, publishing a web page, inserting and using hyperlinks, using conditional formatting.