You Don't Know What You don't know About Microsoft Excel

Course Descritpion:

Many Excel® users have received little or no formal training to help them use the ubiquitous productivity application. This session can help users that wish to improve their Excel skills to increase their productivity. The material starts by covering basic topics such time saving tips and keyboard shortcuts and then moves to more advanced areas like conditional formatting and complex formula building. Users that find themselves looking at the spreadsheets that others design and wishing they could do as much with Excel will benefit greatly by taking this course.

Learning Objectives:
Once participants have completed this session they should be able to:

• Understand the many keyboard shortcuts that are available to save time and effort
• Use Excel Templates, Styles, and Themes to add uniformity to Excel workbooks they design or edit
• Design custom number and date formats to meet their specific needs
• Add security to the workbooks they use. This includes workbook encryption, and the use of sheet level, range level and cell level security features
• Understand formula building conventions such as order of operation
• Troubleshoot formulas that are not working properly
• Work with functions in the function library to create powerful formulas

Course Highlights:
This session is taught using a Hands-On methodology. We provide practice files that tie to the examples in the course materials so participants can undertake all the steps in unison with the instructor for a greatly improved learning experience. The Excel topics discussed in this session include

•  Excel shortcuts and time savers
•  Working with templates, formats, styles, and themes
•  Customizing and enhancing Excel 
•  Protecting and securing workbooks
• Formula building and the Excel function library

Who Should Attend?
Accounting and other business professionals that work extensively with Excel who want to become knowledgeable about the many powerful features it possesses

Area of Study:                                                                                                 
Computer Software and Applications                                              

Level:
Basic/Intermediate 

Credit:
8 hours

Prerequisites:
An understanding of Excel conventions