Excel 2010: Basic

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

 

Description: This course teaches the basic functions and features of Excel 2010. After an introduction to spreadsheet terminology and Excel's window components, students will learn how to use the Help system and navigate worksheets and workbooks. Then they will enter and edit text, values, formulas, and pictures, and they will save workbooks in various formats. Students will also move and copy data, learn about absolute and relative references, and work with ranges, rows, and columns. This course also covers simple functions, basic formatting techniques, and printing. Finally, students will create and modify charts, and learn how to manage large workbooks.

 


 

Course Contents:

 

Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: Spreadsheet terminology
Topic B: The Excel environment
Topic C: Getting help
Topic D: Navigating a worksheet


Unit 2: Entering and editing data
Topic A: Entering and editing text and values
Topic B: Entering and editing formulas
Topic C: Working with pictures
Topic D: Saving and updating workbooks


Unit 3: Modifying a worksheet
Topic A: Moving and copying data
Topic B: Moving and copying formulas
Topic C: Absolute and relative references
Topic D: Inserting and deleting ranges, rows, and columns


Unit 4: Functions 
Topic A: Entering functions
Topic B: AutoSum
Topic C: Other common functions


Unit 5: Formatting 
Topic A: Text formatting 
Topic B: Row and column formatting 
Topic C: Number formatting 
Topic D: Conditional formatting
Topic E: Additional formatting options 


Unit 6: Printing
Topic A: Preparing to print
Topic B: Page Setup options
Topic C: Printing worksheets


Unit 7: Charts 
Topic A: Chart basics
Topic B: Formatting charts


Unit 8: Managing large workbooks
Topic A: Viewing large worksheets
Topic B: Printing large worksheets
Topic C: Working with multiple worksheets