Excel Introduction – 1 Day Essentials

About this course

This introductory course uses guided classroom practice and real-world examples to familiarise learners with Excel’s workbooks, worksheets, cells, ranges, ribbon and basic tools. Participants will enter and edit data, use autofill, and format spreadsheets with fonts, colours, borders and alignment. The course also covers operators, SUM and AVERAGE, alongside creating bar, pie and column charts. Learners will prepare spreadsheets for printing by setting page layouts, margins, scaling, print areas, headers and footers.

What you'll learn

• Navigate Excel workbooks, worksheets, cells, ranges and core interface tools
• Enter, correct and extend spreadsheet data using basic editing tools and autofill
• Apply formatting to improve the clarity and presentation of spreadsheet data
• Use basic operators and functions including SUM and AVERAGE
• Create charts from spreadsheet data and select from bar, pie and column formats
• Set page layout, print areas, scaling, headers and footers for printed spreadsheets

Is this course right for you?

The course is designed for complete beginners and learners whose Excel skills have become rusty. Its step-by-step, face-to-face format involves practising tasks during guided classroom activities, with examples relevant to office, administration, business and study.

• Suitable for learners starting Excel from the beginning
• Also intended for learners revisiting basic Excel skills
• Uses guided practice rather than theory alone
• Covers applications relevant to office, administrative, business and study work

Before you go

• A training booklet is included.
• A certificate of completion is included.