These materials introduce basic Excel skills such as entering various types of data, working with common formulas and functions, and creating a simple chart. We'll also cover formatting a worksheet, naming a range of cells, adding columns to a spreadsheet, and creating a data table.
Learning Objectives
- Enter data into a spreadsheet
- Format a worksheet
- Enter a formula
- Enter a function
- Create and use named ranges
- Create a simple chart
- Modify data
- Insert a new worksheet
- Insert rows and columns into a worksheet
- Sort and filter data
- Create an Excel table
Prerequisite Skills
- Use a mouse
- Open and close windows
- Open and save files
- Switch between application windows
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Excel: The Basics Contents
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Explore the contents of Excel: The Basics:
Explore the Microsoft Excel interface.
Learn how to identify text and numeric data.
Learn about using formulas in Microsoft Excel, including syntax, operators, entering formulas, and copying and pasting formulas.
Explore various ways to enter functions.
Explore absolute cell references.
See the full content for Working with absolute cell references.
Learn how named ranges can be useful when working in Excel.
Learn about charts in Microsoft Excel and create a pie chart.
Explore what happens with data in the worksheet is updated or edited.
Learn how to add a new worksheet to the workbook and add data using the autofill feature.
See how to insert blank columns and rows into a worksheet.
See how to create an Excel table and how to use that table to sort and filter data.
Use the features of the Excel table to sort and filter the data.
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