Excel Core

Learn to use Excel to create budgets, track costs and generate quotes. Learn tools and ideas that will save time and create professional looking proposals and plans.

Description

Learn to use Excel to create budgets, track costs and generate quotes.  Learn tools and ideas that will save time and create professional looking proposals and plans.  Participants with only a very basic knowledge of Excel will quickly progress to create basic databases, budgets, graphs, reports and the fundamentals of building equations. 

This course maps to the Microsoft MOS Core Exam.  After reviewing all topics in the manual participants will be prepared to successfully write the Microsoft Office Specialist Core Exam.

The following list summarizes skills that students will be comfortable with after this course.

  • Customize Excel options and views
  • Create and manipulate tables
  • Filter and sort data
  • Apply formulas
  • Use the correct syntax to insert functions
  • Create and format cells and ranges
  • Order and group cells and ranges
  • Apply cell ranges and references in formulas and functions
  • Summarize data with functions
  • Apply conditional logic in functions
  • Format and modify text with functions
  • Create and format charts and objects 
 
Sharing a single registration between two or more individuals is not permitted. Please register each person who will be in attendance.

Prerequisites

The course assumes that students have completed the Microsoft Office Basics course or have equivalent knowledge. 

Technical Requirements

  1. Computer or laptop

    • This course will involve on-screen interaction with your instructor and classmates, reading/viewing on-screen content (slides or videos), and interacting via typing with questions or responses. For this reason, cellphones may not be adequate. 

    • Windows 10 or Mac iOS. 

  1. Webcam (Mandatory)– in order to engage and collaborate, participants will be expected to have their webcams on for the duration of the class

  2. Microphone (Mandatory)

  3. Internet connection- For best results, you will want to ensure you have an internet connection with an upload/download speed of 3-5 Mbps. You can test your internet speed here. The minimum recommended speed is 1.5 Mbps, but anything below 3 Mbps may result in loss of quality or buffering. Ideally hardwired connection versus wireless for stability - connect your computer directly to your router using an ethernet cable, rather than using your home wi-fi.

  4. A quiet space with minimal distractions –The microphone will be engaged for interactive sessions. Please plan to be fully engaged in the class and clear your work schedule just as you would for the in-class program.

  5. Comfortable chair