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

Overview

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 as 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. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics covered in this course 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

Note: 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.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of Excel conventions

Designed For

Accounting and other business professionals that have an understanding of Excel but want to be more proficient as they design and edit workbooks of all types.

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will 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 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