00 MICROSOFT EXCEL

Difficulty Level: Beginner
Word Version: XP
Assumed Knowledge: None

 

 

The aim of these tutorials is to:

 

show students how to use Microsoft Excel.

TUTORIALS

01 INTRODUCING EXCEL

Why use Excel?
Opening up Excel
Using pop-down menus
Understanding toolbars and how they work

02 BOOKS AND FOLDERS

Creating a new book
Saving a new book
Saving a book in your own folder
Renaming an existing book
Opening an existing book
Opening more than one book at a time
Closing a book

03 TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR DATA

Inserting your own data
Adding data to existing data
Activating and moving through cells
Selecting data
Deleting data
Undoing a command
Redoing a command

04 FORMULAE AND FUNCTIONS

Basic Formulae
Copying and Pasting Formulae
Relative, Absolute and Mixed Cell Referencing
Basic Functions

05 FORMATTING NUMERICAL CELLS

General and Built-in Number formats
Number formatting
Currency
Accounting
Date
Time
Percentages
Fractions
Scientific Notation
Text

06 CHARTS

About Charts
Chart sheets and embedded charts
Creating a Chart
Arranging Data
Using the Chart Wizard
Using the Chart toolbar

07 ROWS, COLUMNS AND FREEZE PANES

Inserting a row
Deleting a row
Inserting a column
Deleting a column
Changing row heights
Changing column widths
Freeze Panes

08 WORKSHEET SETUP

09 SETTING WORKSHEET ORIENTATION

10 SETTING WORKSHEET SCALING

11 SETTING WORKSHEET SIZE, PRINT QUALITY AND FIRST PAGE NUMBER

Introduction
Worksheet size
Print Quality
First Page Number

12 SETTING WORKSHEET MARGINS

13 SETTING WORKSHEET HEADERS AND FOOTERS

Worksheet Headers and Footers
Custom Headers and Footers

14 SETTING WORKSHEET PRINTING OPTIONS

15 FORMATTING

Using the Formatting Toolbar
Font size
Bold, Italics and Underline
Alignment
Merge and Centre
Currenct
Percentage
Comma Style
Decimal Places
Indentation
Border
Cell Colour
Text Colour
Using the Format Painter

16 USING AUTOFORMAT

AutoFormat
Applying AutoFormat
Removing AutoFormat

17 CUTTING, COPYING, PASTING AND MOVING DATA

Cutting, Copying and Pasting
Moving Data using Drag-and-Drop
Pasting from the Clipboard

18 CORRECTING TEXT AND DATA

Spellings

19 FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT OR DATA

Finding Text or Data
Replacing Text or Data

USING MACROS

Recording a macro
Running a macro

USING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS