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Find out how easy it is to put this dynamic relational database management software to work for you. Learn the fundamentals of the Access user interface, along with database basics such as creating, saving, closing and opening an Access database. Learn how to create simple tables, with emphasis on understanding data types, field sizes and field properties. You will also learn how to create simple forms, select queries and reports from the tables you create.

Understanding relationships between objects in an Access database is vital. Learn how to develop and create relationships between tables and how to use these relationships to develop simple and complex queries.

Queries are a way of searching for and compiling data from one or more tables. Learn how to build and run a query by asking detailed questions of your database. Find specific data quickly by filtering criteria (conditions), calculate or summarize data and automate data management tasks, such as reviewing the most current data on a recurring basis.

A course specifically designed for people who are 55 years or older and want to enter the computer age. Learn the fundamentals of using a PC, mouse & keyboard, typing a document and saving to a CD. You will learn lots of computer terminology, how to identify items on your computer and the basics of windows 10. Don’t delay! The computer age awaits! A cash materials fee of $15 is payable to the instructor on the first day of class.

This is a continuation course specifically designed for people who have completed the Computer Basics for Seniors Level I course. So you've learned some of the basics of computers -- don't stop there! Continue expanding your skills by delving deeper into the Windows environment. You will learn how to organize files and folders, the basics of Word (for letter writing), and an introduction to Excel (creating spreadsheets) for making your life simpler and more organized!

Spreadsheets are essential in today's workplace. Discover the fundamentals that will help you succeed. Explore the Excel Interface, Distinguish between various mouse pointers, employ efficient worksheet navigation, enter labels/values, edit and format a worksheet and even get an introduction to formulas.

Spreadsheets are essential in today's workplace. Discover the fundamentals that will help you succeed. Explore the Excel Interface, Distinguish between various mouse pointers, employ efficient worksheet navigation, enter labels/values, edit and format a worksheet and even get an introduction to formulas.

Large excel spreadsheets can quickly become difficult to translate. Learn to communicate information visually with the use of Excel Charts. Explore and fine-tune your chart elements with ease. Learn to manage workbooks, exploration of special formatting, advanced page layout and printing features. Also get an introduction to Excel functions to prepare you for Excel III & IV.

This beginner-friendly workshop is designed for educators and nonprofit professionals who want to learn the fundamentals of grant writing. In this interactive 2.5-hour session, you will explore key topics such as needs assessments, data collection, SMART goals, program descriptions, evaluation, sustainability, and budgeting. You will gain practical skills to craft compelling proposals to increase your chances of securing funding. No prior grant writing experience is required.

Learn the basics of the Internet, how it works, and what it can do for you. You will be guided step by step in learning about search engines (vehicles that assist you in obtaining information), web browsing and other key components in mastering the art of navigation of the World Wide Web.

Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create impressive slide presentations filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and hyperlinks. Find out how to save your presentations so you can share them with others over the Web or on CDs.

Learn how to add effects, features and charts in Microsoft PowerPoint to enhance your current presentations. Delve deeper into PowerPoint's rich features by exploring many text options such as adding pictures and charts, using SmartArt, Custom Animations and adding sound/movie clips. We will also learn about slide masters, content slides and action buttons while creating a non-linear presentation.

Participants will enhance their public speaking abilities while addressing the mental wellness aspects of speaking in public, including managing anxiety, building confidence, and creating a positive, stress-free speaking environment.

Participants will enhance their public speaking abilities while addressing the mental wellness aspects of speaking in public, including managing anxiety, building confidence, and creating a positive, stress-free speaking environment.

Welcome to Introduction to Windows 10. This course is intended to help new users get acquainted with Windows 10. We will discuss the new desktop interface elements, show users how to customize the Windows 10 environment, and learn how to get around in Windows 10. Learn new tips, tricks and keyboard shortcuts!

From Headers and Footers to timesaving formatting techniques, this course brings a lot to the table. This course explains each of the following features; Creating Hyperlinks, Page Breaks, Indents and Spacing, Margins, Setting Tabs, Formatting Tables, ClipArt, Pictures and Shapes. Whether new to Word or wanting to learn new techniques, gain insight for increased productivity and professional-looking documents with Microsoft Word.

In this hands-on course, you will learn Microsoft Excel 2019's advanced functions and often-overlooked features, including data analysis tools, data tables and databases, custom controls, and PivotTables.

Most organizations rely heavily on Microsoft Excel to consolidate, analyze, and report financial information and other important data. Your company is probably no exception. If you work with data of any kind, learning Excel's advanced functions to taking on greater responsibilities in your organization.

This course will help you master many features in Microsoft Excel 2019 that most users don't know exist. You will learn the secret to using formula-based conditional formatting as a creative solution to common issues. You will also learn how to leverage Excel's Power Query tool to import and transform data from about any data source. By the time you finish this course, you will have mastered Microsoft Excel 2019 and will be able to better serve your company's data management needs.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. It is not suitable for Macs or Chromebooks.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Excel 2019 (desktop version), available to download with the desktop version of Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 (not included in enrollment)
• Note: The "Starter Version" and "Web App" versions of Microsoft will not work with the full version taught in this course.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Customizing Excel

To kick things off, this lesson explains different ways you can modify Excel to streamline processes and make your work easier. You will use the Excel Options dialog box to customize some of Excel's behind-the-scenes behavior and set up your Quick Access Toolbar.

Table Management

This lesson explores Excel's table management features, using data forms with Excel databases, and alternative database techniques. You'll be glad to know that formatting and working with tables has become much easier in this latest version of Excel.

Data Validation

In this lesson, you will tackle data validation techniques—your first line of defense against incorrect or missing data and the logical next step after data forms. You will practice using whole number, decimal, date, time, list, and other forms of validation.

Custom Controls

This lesson will introduce you to custom controls—graphical objects that help facilitate data input and are sure to impress users. You will learn how to create standard and drop-down list boxes, check boxes, option buttons, and group boxes.

Conditional Formatting

This lesson will teach you how to use conditional formatting. You will learn how to use conditional formatting to hide errors, to highlight records based on multiple criteria, to track and alert you about due dates, to find the differences between two lists, to shade every other row, and more.

Consolidating and Outlining

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Excel's consolidation function to efficiently summarize data from multiple sources. Many Excel users do this the hard way, but with Excel's automatic consolidation feature, you will no longer need to develop a web of formula links to multiple sources.

Excel Functions and Nesting

Excel's functions are too numerous to cover in just one lesson, so this lesson focuses on a few important ones spanning four categories: Logical, Database, Math & Trig, and Lookup & Reference.

Import External Data

This lesson focuses on importing external data. You will learn how to use the built-in Query Editor using Excel's powerful Power Query tool and import external database that combines two database tables into a single import.

Data Tables

Data tables are very powerful what-if analysis tools that are great for analyzing potential outcomes of personal or business financial decisions. In this lesson, you will learn how to use two different types of data tables.

What-If Analysis Tools

This lesson explores three more of Excel's what-if analysis tools: Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Solver.

Advanced PivotTables

In this lesson, you will discover how to use PivotTables, which are excellent for summarizing massive amounts of data and viewing different cuts of the information quickly. There are two methods for creating PivotTables, and you will practice using both.

Analysis ToolPak, Advanced Filter, Array Formulas, and More!

Your final lesson with a look at the functions available in the Analysis ToolPak, including Moving Average and Sampling tools. You will learn how to use the View Side by Side tool and how to use the Watch Window to keep tabs on your data when you're updating a workbook.

What you will learn

• The power of what-if analysis tools like data tables, Scenario Manager, Solver, and Goal Seek
• To build creative formulas with conditional formatting to solve common problems
• To import and transform external data from multiple external sources
• To combine multiple Access tables into a single table using Power Query

How you will benefit

• Master Excel 2019 and become a more productive member of your organization
• Gain indispensable skills that will be useful in any organization that relies on numbers-based reporting
• Learn to use the power of Microsoft Excel 2019 to save time, money and frustration
• Develop skills that can be used to simplify your life of calculating and displaying numbers both personally and professionally

Chad Wambolt

Chad Wambolt has spent his entire professional career in the finance field, working for both private and publicly-held companies with sales ranging from $500 million to $3 billion. He is a graduate of Boise State University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting. Through the course of his career, Wambolt became an expert user of Microsoft Excel. Since 1997, he has taught Excel to students of varying skill levels and helped organizations streamline internal processes.

This hands-on course will teach you Microsoft Excel 2019's advanced functions and often-overlooked features, including data analysis tools, data tables and databases, custom controls, and PivotTables.

Across industries, most organizations use Microsoft Excel to consolidate, analyze, and report financial information and other important data. If you work with data of any kind, learning Excel's advanced functions strengthens your professional portfolio.

The Advanced Microsoft Excel 2019 course will teach you Excel's advanced functions, which most users don't know exist. You will learn how to use formula-based conditional formatting as a creative solution to common issues. You will also learn how to leverage Excel's Power Query tool to import and transform data from any data source.

By course completion, you will be an expert in Microsoft Excel 2019.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. It is not suitable for Macs or Chromebooks.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Excel 2019 (desktop version), available to download with the desktop version of Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 (not included in enrollment)
• Note: The "Starter Version" and "Web App" versions of Microsoft will not work with the full version taught in this course.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Customizing Excel

To kick things off, your first lesson explores different ways you can modify Excel to streamline processes and make your work easier. You will use the Excel Options dialog box to customize some of Excel's behind-the-scenes behavior and set up your Quick Access Toolbar.

Table Management

This lesson explores Excel's table management features, using data forms with Excel databases, and alternative database techniques. You will be glad to know that formatting and working with tables has gotten much easier in this latest version of Excel.

Data Validation

In this lesson, you will tackle data validation techniques—your first line of defense against incorrect or missing data and the logical next step after data forms. You will practice using whole number, decimal, date, time, list, and other forms of validation.

Custom Controls

This lesson will introduce you to custom controls—graphical objects that help facilitate data input and are sure to impress users. You will learn how to create standard and drop-down list boxes, check boxes, option buttons, and group boxes.

Conditional Formatting

This lesson will teach you how to use conditional formatting. You will learn how to use conditional formatting to hide errors, to highlight records based on multiple criteria, to track and alert you about due dates, to find the differences between two lists, to shade every other row, and more.

Consolidating and Outlining

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Excel's consolidation function to efficiently summarize data from multiple sources. Many Excel users do this the hard way, but with Excel's automatic consolidation feature, you will no longer need to develop a web of formula links to multiple sources.

Excel Functions and Nesting

Excel's functions are too numerous to cover in just one lesson, so this lesson focuses on a few important ones spanning four categories: Logical, Database, Math & Trig, and Lookup & Reference.

Import External Data

This lesson focuses on importing external data. You will learn how to use the built-in Query Editor using Excel's powerful Power Query tool and import external database that combines two database tables into a single import.

Data Tables

Data tables are very powerful what-if analysis tools that are great for analyzing potential outcomes of personal or business financial decisions. In this lesson, you will learn how to use two different types of data tables.

What-If Analysis Tools

This lesson explores three more of Excel's what-if analysis tools: Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Solver.

Advanced PivotTables

In this lesson, you will discover how to use PivotTables, which are excellent for summarizing massive amounts of data and viewing different cuts of the information quickly. There are two methods for creating PivotTables, and you will practice using both.

Analysis ToolPak, Advanced Filter, Array Formulas, and More!

Your final lesson with a look at the functions available in the Analysis ToolPak, including Moving Average and Sampling tools. You will learn how to use the View Side by Side tool and how to use the Watch Window to keep tabs on your data when you're updating a workbook.

Self-Study

This self-paced course will bring your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level. You will learn how to use several powerful features in this long-standing spreadsheet software.

Microsoft Excel is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets, providing organizations will an easy-to-use solution for managing budgets, scheduling, tracking, and more. This course will teach you the software's often-overlooked features and functions.

You will learn how to harness the power of Excel's data analysis tools and AutoFilter commands and how to create macros that eliminate repetitive tasks. You will also add VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH, and other intermediate functions to your professional skill set.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. Macs are not compatible.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Excel 2019 (desktop version) available to download with the desktop version of Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 (not included in enrollment)
• Note: The "Starter Version" and "Web App" versions of Microsoft Excel will not work with the full version of Excel taught in this course.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

• The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Excel Charts and Graphs

In this first lesson, you'll discover why Excel is such a powerful and user-friendly charting tool. To you, a workbook's numbers might tell an interesting story. But to others, that story might not be quite so obvious—they might just see plain old numbers. So, today, you'll find out how to choose the right chart for telling your story and then how to create, format, and edit your chart to help others clearly visualize that story.

More Excel Charts

There are so many great charting features and enhancements in Excel 2019, there's no way we could cover all of them in a single lesson. So, today, we'll continue exploring Excel's charting options—this time looking at the lesser-known options that are available to you. Even though they aren't well-known, these options can add tremendous value to your worksheets in the right situations. We'll walk through a few of them step-by-step, so you'll see the value for yourself.

AutoFilter and Sorting

Working with data in Excel can be quite easy—and sometimes even fun—when you know about the extra tools that are available once you have your data arranged in a table format. One of these great tools is the Auto Filter command. In today's lesson, you'll learn how to use Auto Filter to limit your table information to just the records you want. Not only does Auto Filter allow for finding exact matches, but it can also filter and sort based on cell shading or font color. How great is that?

Goal Seeking

Normally, you'll use your Excel workbooks as a place to enter formulas and get answers. But what if the formula isn't returning the answer you want? If you know what you want, but you just don't know what formula will get you there, then Excel's Goal Seek is exactly what you need. This tool will help you avoid the trial-and-error approach that most Excel users go through to get to the right answer. In this lesson, we'll walk through multiple examples together, exploring several ways to apply this great feature.

PivotTables

Today, you'll learn how to use one of the best features of Excel: the PivotTable. If you've heard about PivotTables before, then you know what I mean. There's no greater what-if analysis tool to summarize, reorganize, and report data. When we practice creating a PivotTable, you'll discover how "pivoting" your data helps you gain valuable insights by seeing the same information from a different perspective. This is a lesson you won't want to miss!

Advanced PivotTables

Just like charting, Excel's PivotTables are too big a topic to fit into one lesson. So, today, we'll take PivotTables to the next level by taking a tour through some of Excel's more advanced techniques. You'll learn how quick and easy it is to group your data to give your PivotTable even more power. Then you'll find out how a PivotTable can serve as your source and inspiration for some really nice charts, specifically, the PivotChart. Last, you'll become an expert in using the Excel PivotTable filtering tool called Slicer.

Solver

Have you ever worked with a financial model in Excel and wondered how you could speculate different outcomes by changing different input amounts? The Excel Solver can do just that. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use Solver to solve a complex problem based on the criteria and constraints we provide it. If you liked the Goal Seek lesson, then this Solver lesson is going to knock your socks off.

Sparklines

There's nothing more exciting than learning how to master a useful and eye-catching feature in Excel. In today's lesson, we'll explore in detail how to create all three types of Sparklines, as well as formatting options for each. By the end of the lesson, you'll have the skills to create dashboard-like mini charts sure to make you the envy of your office. If you enjoy creating charts, you'll really enjoy this lesson.

Macros

Today's topic is a student (and instructor) favorite. In this lesson, you'll find out how to use macros to turn boring, repetitive, time-consuming tasks into automated Excel functions. Tired of doing the same formatting on the same report month after month? Here's your chance to see how to record a macro that performs that time-consuming task in seconds with just one swift click of a button! How will you spend all the extra time that this lesson will save you?

Introduction to Functions

If you've used Excel for a while, you know there are hundreds of functions at your disposal. We're going to spend the last three lessons of this course going over exactly how and why you'd use them. We'll start today by going through a quick overview of all the categories of functions and the different methods you can use to create them. Then, later in the lesson, we'll ease into creating various functions using some from the Text category.

Math/Trig Functions

Next to learning how to create macros, most students want to learn as much as they can about Excel functions. In today's lesson, we'll dig a little deeper into using some of the slightly more complex functions that you'll find in the Math & Trig category. Specifically, we'll look at two of my favorites, the SUMIF, and COUNTIF functions, and discuss how to use one of the more complex functions, SUMIFS. If one of your objectives in taking this course is to learn more about functions, you're in for a treat!

VLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH Functions

Since functions are such an important and integral part of using Excel, we'll spend our final lesson going over a few more of them. Today, you're going to learn how to use the extremely popular VLOOKUP function. If you're already accustomed to using VLOOKUP, don't feel short-changed, because we're going to add to the complexity. We're going to use the INDEX and MATCH functions to do something just short of amazing. This is another lesson you won't want to miss!

Self-Study

Learn how to use the more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2016 (now available through Office 365) including how to add graphics, use templates, and merge data.

Go beyond the basics of word processing and master the more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2016 (now available through Office 365). In this course, you'll learn how to automate Word 2016 using shortcuts to help you write more while typing less. From signs, newsletters, and greeting cards to long documents, you'll learn how to create whatever you need—quickly and with professional-looking results.

You'll also learn how to create and organize text in tables, mix graphics and text together to turn Word into a simple desktop publishing program, and merge spreadsheet and database data to create mailing labels and form letters. Along the way, you'll go through lots of examples and exercises so you can see how Word's advanced features work; but more importantly, you'll see how you can use these advanced features at home and on the job. By the end of this course, you'll know how to use Word more effectively and take advantage of all its many features so you can get your work done more quickly and more easily than you ever thought possible.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. It is not suitable for Macs.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Word 2016 (not included in enrollment).
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

1. Shortcuts and Time-Savers in Word 2016
2. Text and Paragraph Formatting Methods
3. Templates
4. Graphics: Part 1
5. Graphics: Part 2, and Columns
6. Sections and Notes
7. Tables
8. Envelopes and Odd-Size Pages
9. Desktop Publishing: Part 1
10. Desktop Publishing: Part 2
11. Merging Data with Documents
12. Final Touches

Self-Study

Knowing how to create a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel is key to effectively managing and organizing information. This online, self-paced course will introduce you to Microsoft Excel 2019 and teach you basic Excel skills.

If you work with numbers, names, dates, or other important data, you need to create spreadsheets to manage this information. Microsoft Excel is the most widely-used spreadsheet software to organize, store, and optimize data. If you're ready to learn Excel 2019, this course will teach you the basics.

You will learn how to create a spreadsheet using several time-saving functions. You will also learn how to use macros and buttons, how to sort and analyze your data, and more. By course completion, you will know how to best organize large sets of data into a spreadsheet with this powerful business productivity tool.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. It is not suitable for Macs or Chromebooks.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Excel 2019 (desktop version), available with the desktop version of Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 (not included in enrollment).
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Excel Basics

In our first lesson, you'll develop a solid understanding of the Excel interface. You'll become fluent in the secret language spoken only by Excel users, you'll discover the best way to correct just about any mistake you might make in Excel, and you'll find yourself gliding effortlessly from cell to cell, leaving behind expertly written labels, numbers, and formulas.

Creating a Worksheet

In this lesson, you'll learn five simple steps you should always follow to ensure that your worksheets are always well-planned, well-constructed, and beautifully formatted.

Time-Savers

Our third lesson will teach you the tricks of the Excel masters: a wide variety of useful shortcuts guaranteed to save you time, energy, and frustration. We'll also spend some time working with the Quick Analysis and Flash Fill tools. By the time you finish this lesson, you'll really start to feel like an Excel pro.

Relative, Absolute, Mixed, and Circular References

Do you know the difference between a relative reference, an absolute reference, a mixed reference, and a circular reference? You will after this lesson. Today, we focus on writing sophisticated formulas that can help ease us through some rather sticky scenarios.

3-Dimensional Workbooks

With enough practice, most Excel users quickly become adept at organizing their worksheets across two dimensions: rows and columns. But only a select few will learn how to take their worksheets into the third dimension. Today, you'll join that exclusive group. Prepare to have your socks knocked off as you gain hands-on experience in the construction of three-dimensional workbooks.

Sorting, Subtotaling, and Filtering

No Excel course would be complete without a discussion of Excel's amazing data-crunching capabilities. Today, you'll not only learn how to build a table in Excel, but you'll also learn how to subtotal, sort, and filter.

Charting Basics

In this lesson, we'll explore the exciting world of charts. You'll build your first graph today, and you'll learn how easy it is to adjust the chart type, labels, titles, colors, and many other aspects of your chart.

Advanced Charting Techniques

Today, you'll dig deep into Excel's charting capabilities. You'll explore everything from bar charts and line charts to more prosaic graphs like the pie chart and 3-D charts. You'll find out how to personalize your charts with photographs, text labels, and drawings. You'll also discover the best ways to format your chart for print or otherwise display the truly impressive charts that you'll be creating.

Intro to Excel's Statistical Functions

Excel includes many powerful functions that can automatically perform some very complicated tasks for you. In today's lesson, you'll learn some very interesting ways to put these functions to work for you. You'll find out how to ask Excel to magically derive averages, modes, maximums, minimums, and other useful statistics from nothing more than a column or two of numbers.

Financial Functions

We'll continue our exploration of Excel functions with an in-depth look at Excel's handy financial functions today. By the time this lesson is over, you'll be able to figure out how much money you'll have when you retire, when your kids reach college, or just before your next vacation. You'll be able to calculate the monthly payment on just about any type of loan, and you'll know how to figure out how long it will take to pay off your credit cards. You'll even create an amortization table of your very own, just like the one lenders use to track a loan's payoff amount over time.

Worksheet Automation

Students often rank this lesson as one of their favorites. Today, you'll find out how to automate just about any task you find tedious or time-consuming. You'll discover how to move your most frequently used commands from their present, obscure locations to a much more convenient place: the toolbar that's always perched at the very top of your screen. You'll also learn how you can use macros to reduce just about any complex task to a single keystroke.

Mastering Excel's IF Function

I think you'll be intrigued by our final lesson, in which you'll learn how to use Excel to aid you in decision making. We'll use a special function in Excel that allows it to make comparisons and use those comparisons as the basis for important decisions.

Self-Study

Becoming a certified Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert demonstrates your mastery of Microsoft Office products. This course prepares you for the Microsoft Office Specialist Expert certification exam for Microsoft Excel.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course must be taken on a PC. Macs and Chromebooks are not compatible.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
• Microsoft Office 365, 2021 or 2019 (not included in enrollment). While you can use an older version of Microsoft Office, if you do, there will be some differences between your version and what you see in the course.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment.

Get the Excel training you need to achieve success so you can manipulate data faster and more efficiently in most workplace situations. If your organization uses lists of any kind, you need to know how to use Microsoft Excel. Earning the Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert certification sets your professional skill set apart from other Excel users. The course will prepare you for the Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel Expert exam.

In this online Excel course, you will first learn to create, modify, and format Excel worksheets, perform calculations, and print Excel workbooks. The course then moves on to teach you how to use advanced formulas, work with lists, work with illustrations and charts, and use advanced formatting techniques. You will also learn Excel's advanced features, such as pivot tables, audit worksheets, data tools, macros, and collaboration methods.

Upon completion of this course, you will be prepared for the Microsoft Excel Expert certification exam, Exam MO-201 (for Microsoft Office 2019/2021 users), or Exam MO-211 (for Microsoft Office 365 users.) This course offers enrollment with or without a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to sit for the certifying exam upon eligibility. Proctor fees may apply, which are not included.

1. Introduction to Excel
   1. Microsoft Office Basics
   2. Creating a Microsoft Excel Workbook
   3. The Ribbon
   4. The Backstage View (The File Menu)
   5. The Quick Access Toolbar
   6. Entering Data in Microsoft Excel Worksheets
   7. Formatting Microsoft Excel Worksheets
   8. Editing Worksheets
   9. Working with Rows and Columns
   10. Using Formulas in Microsoft Excel
   11. Finalizing Microsoft Excel Worksheets
   12. Introduction to Excel Exam
2. Intermediate Excel
   1. Common Functions
   2. Working with Lists
   3. Visualizing Your Data
   4. Working with Tables
   5. Advanced Formatting
   6. Intermediate Excel Exam
3. Advanced Excel
   1. Using PivotTables
   2. Advanced Functions
   3. Auditing Workbooks
   4. Data Tools
   5. Working with Others
   6. Recording and Using Macros
   7. Advanced Excel Exam
4. Final Exam

What you will learn

• Modify and format data in Excel to create clear, presentable worksheets
• Perform calculations, write formulas, manage workbooks, and save time with Excel shortcuts
• Use Excel database functions and logic functions to work with information in large datasets, and leverage Excel's statistical functions to analyze data
• Visualize your data using charts to show trends, create comparisons, and demonstrate other meaningful insights
• Convert, sort, filter, and manage lists to keep your data organized
• Insert and modify illustrations, logos, or shapes to create professional reports
• Emphasize interesting and unusual data with conditional formatting and save time by using styles to apply formatting instantly
• Create PivotTables and charts to quickly summarize large amounts of data
• Learn to trace precedents and dependents to learn about the data connected to your active cell
• Convert blocks of text, analyze data using tables, and leverage validation tools to control the data entered into your worksheet. Consolidate data from various sources into one master worksheet for easy summary and review
• How to protect your worksheets and workbooks for safe and secure collaboration
• Work with other applications by importing and exporting data, charts, and files

How you will benefit

• Enhance your resume with widely-recognized and in-demand Microsoft Excel skills, making you more attractive to potential employers
• Leverage Excel's powerful data analysis capabilities to make informed data-driven decisions
• Use Excel to automate repetitive tasks, saving you valuable time and reducing the risk of manual errors
• Generate sophisticated reports and visualizations using Excel to better understand your data and communicate your findings
• Master Excel's tools and shortcuts to boost your efficiency and. you to complete your tasks more quickly

Tracy Berry

Tracy Berry has been a senior graphic designer/programmer, instructor, and consultant since 1993 and has developed hundreds of logos, marketing materials, websites, and multimedia solutions for customers worldwide. She was also involved in several large corporate software rollouts. She has helped many organizations optimize and streamline data solutions. She teaches both onsite and online courses and has her CTT (Certified Technical Trainer) certification. Tracy specializes in teaching graphics, desktop publishing, web design, and reporting/productivity applications.