IUPUI

This workshop lasts 3 hours, and is part of the following certificates series: Office 2010 Productivity  Excel 2010 End-User

Excel is the most-used spreadsheet and analysis application today. This workshop introduces basic Excel features such as entering various types of data, working with common formulas and functions, and creating a simple chart. Formatting a worksheet and importing a text file are also covered. Although this workshop is intended for the spreadsheet novice, participants with some previous spreadsheet experience may gain a better understanding and learn some new tricks to increase their efficiency in using Excel.

    What You'll learn Available Downloads

• become familiar with spreadsheet terminology

• enter various types of data into a worksheet

• work with formulas and functions

• create a simple chart

• import tab-delimited data into Excel

• format cells and ranges

• create named ranges and use them in formulas

• customize printouts

• Workshop Materials (PDF)

• Exercise Files (Win) (ZIP)

What you need to know

• use a mouse

• open and close windows

• open and save files

• switch between applications

If you don't have those skills, consider first taking the workshop:

• Windows: Basic Computing Skills