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Excel Foundation Course Outline

Duration

This is a one day course split into several scheduled topics. Attendees can join one, several or all topics depending on their interest.

Knowledge Pre-requisites

None. This is a beginners course.

Learning Outcomes

This course covers common useful techniques to help build better Excel spreadsheets.

Agenda

09:30 to 10:30 Get Started with Excel

This covers the absolute basics: how to navigate the Excel user interface, enter data and write our first formulas.

11:00 to 12:00 Introduction to formulas

Formulas are the beating heart of Excel. This session covers typical formulas, and related concepts: relative and fixed cell references and named ranges.

12:30 to 13:30 Excel tables

Excel tables make managing data easier. This lesson covers how to create them and why they are very useful.

14:00 to 15:00 Summarise and explore data with pivot tables

Pivot tables offer a fast way of summarising and exploring data.

15:30 to 16:30 Use conditional formatting in Excel to present data in tables and pivot tables

Often we need to present data as a table or data table. We can use icons, background colours, data bars within cells to make the data more appealing and provide insight.