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Do you manage large sets of numbers, names, dates or other pieces of information? If so, then you need to create worksheets to manage, store, organize and even analyze this information. Excel, Microsoft's powerful spreadsheet software, is the most widely used program to handle this task. If you want to learn the 2019 version of Microsoft Excel, this course introduces you to the program's basic functions and uses. Through hands-on lessons, you learn numerous shortcuts to quickly and efficiently set up worksheets. You also learn how to use the function wizard to calculate statistics, future values and more. In addition, get tips on sorting and analyzing data, creating three-dimensional workbooks and automating frequently repeated tasks with macros and buttons.

Course Objectives

Know how to use Excel 2019 to make you a more productive member of your organization


Gain indispensable skills that are useful for numbers-based reporting


Develop skills that can be used to simplify your life of calculating and displaying numbers both personally and professionally

Outline of Instruction

Excel Basics
Develop a solid understanding of the Excel interface and become fluent in the secret language spoken only by Excel users. Discover the best way to correct just about any mistake you might make in Excel, and find yourself gliding effortlessly from cell to cell, leaving behind expertly written labels, numbers and formulas.

Creating a Worksheet
Learn five simple steps you should always follow to ensure that your worksheets are always well-planned, well-constructed and beautifully formatted.

Time-Savers
Learn the tricks of the Excel masters: a variety of useful shortcuts guaranteed to save you time, energy and frustration. You also spend some time working with the Quick Analysis and Flash Fill tools.

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? Learn to write sophisticated formulas that can help ease you through some rather sticky scenarios.

Three-Dimensional Workbooks
With enough practice, most Excel users quickly become adept at organizing their worksheets across two dimensions: rows and columns. Learn how to take your worksheets into the third dimension.

Sorting, Subtotaling and Filtering
No Excel course would be complete without a discussion of Excel's amazing data-crunching capabilities. Learn how to build a table in Excel as well as how to subtotal, sort and filter.

Charting Basics
Explore the exciting world of charts. Build your first graph and learn how easy it is to adjust the chart type, labels, titles, colors and other aspects of your chart.

Advanced Charting Techniques
Dig deep into Excel's charting capabilities. Explore everything from bar charts and line charts to more prosaic graphs like the pie chart and 3D charts. Find out how to personalize your charts with photographs, text labels and drawings. Discover the best ways to format your chart for print or otherwise display the truly impressive charts that you create.

Intro to Excel's Statistical Functions
Excel includes many powerful functions that can automatically perform some very complicated tasks for you. Learn some very interesting ways to put these functions to work for you. 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
Continue your exploration of Excel functions with an in-depth look at Excel's handy financial functions. Figure out how much money you will have when you retire, when your kids reach college or just before your next vacation. Calculate the monthly payment on just about any type of loan, and know how to figure out how long it will take to pay off your credit cards. You can 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
Find out how to automate just about any task you find tedious or time-consuming. 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 top of your screen. Learn how you can use macros to reduce just about any complex task to a single keystroke.

Mastering Excel's IF Function
Learn how to use Excel to aid you in decision-making. Use a special function in Excel that allows it to make comparisons and use those comparisons as the basis for important decisions.

Contact Hours

24

CEUs

No

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

No

Prerequisites

N/A

Learning Supplies Needed

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 is 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.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

N/A

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Students must successfully pass 10 quizzes with a minimum grade of 70% by the second quiz attempt. If all quizzes are not passed with 70% or better by the second attempt, the final exam score must be 70% or higher on the first attempt. The final exam must be taken by the Wake Tech course end date.

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

If you want to learn the 2019 version of Microsoft Excel, this course is for you!

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

N/A

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

N/A

Industry or Job Titles Related to Training Outcomes for Employment

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Course Contact Information

Courtney Boney
919-532-5581
[email protected]