Excel 2016

Master Your Spreadsheets with Excel 2016: Power and Precision Unlocked.

Excel 2016

Master Your Spreadsheets with Excel 2016: Power and Precision Unlocked.

Imagine transforming your career or personal productivity with a single decision. Our Excel 2016 Mastery course is not just a learning journey; it's a gateway to unlocking unparalleled efficiency and creativity in your daily tasks. Imagine the power you'll wield, seamlessly navigating through endless rows of data, creating insightful charts, or automating tedious calculations with ease. Picture yourself equipped with skills that save time, reduce errors, and impress peers and bosses alike. This course carefully blends insightful tuition with hands-on practice, making every lesson engaging and empowering. Why settle for competence when you can achieve mastery? Join us and redefine what's possible, expanding your horizons in ways you haven't yet imagined. Your future Excel brilliance begins here--enroll today and transform tomorrow.

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OVERVIEW

CURRICULUM

Lesson 1. Comprehensive Guide to Leveraging Excel 2016 for Your Needs

Excel 2016's innovative tools like Smart Lookup and Ink Equations provide versatile solutions to create and analyze spreadsheets with ease, reflecting its evolution and alignment with modern data management needs. This course makes exploring these features intuitive and accessible, regardless of your prior experience.

Lesson 2. Navigating Your Excel Workbook

Become adept at Excel 2016 by familiarizing with its spreadsheet concepts including active cells and the Formula Bar, which facilitates data entry and calculations. The Backstage area simplifies file tasks, while the Quick Access Toolbar and Tell Me box empower users with quick access and guidance.

Lesson 3. Mastering the Basics: Worksheets vs. Workbooks

In Excel, workbooks act as containers for worksheets, each beginning with one default sheet. Users can open existing workbooks, save them frequently, and manage worksheets by adding, renaming, or deleting them as needed.

Lesson 4. Efficient Data Entry in MS Excel 2016: Mastering the Basics

Excel data entry requires a bit of planning; identifying your spreadsheet's purpose and needed headings will streamline your process. Familiarize yourself with the types of data (text, values, formulas) and how Excel recognizes and processes each.

Lesson 5. Understanding Excel's Basic Data Movement Tools

This lesson dives into Excel's cut, copy, and paste functions, explaining how to move data effortlessly across cells, rows, and columns, while introducing the Clipboard's capacity to manage multiple selections. Additionally, the need for seamless data transfer is complemented by the Paste Special feature, which provides extensive options for pasting data precisely as desired.

Lesson 6. Excel Formatting Essentials

Transforming a plain worksheet with formatting tools can make data appear professional and visually appealing. By tweaking fonts, colors, and styles, you can shift from a simple gridline to an elegant presentation.

Lesson 7. Mastering Excel's Row and Column Sizing

Control Excel 2016 column widths by setting specific character counts or auto-adjusting to fit content, ensuring consistency by matching columns if necessary. Similarly, row heights can be set in points or autofit for content, all through simple mouse actions or Format menu choices.

Lesson 8. Excel Basics: Editing Cells

Locking and freezing panes enable users to maintain visibility of key labels while scrolling through large datasets, ensuring important information remains accessible. This is complemented by features like Spell Check and AutoCorrect, which streamline the data entry process by dealing with common typographical errors.

Lesson 9. Mastering Excel: Unlocking the Power of Automated Calculations

Excel formulas require operands, references, and operators to execute mathematical tasks such as sums, with a fundamental example being the calculation of adding two values, which assists in managing data with precision. Moreover, Excel's visual cues, like blue shading for referenced cells, enhance accuracy and user ease when dealing with cell ranges and functions like SUM.

Lesson 10. From Basics to Advanced: Navigating Excel's Functions and Formulas

Inserting functions can be done directly in a cell through the Formulas tab, offering a user-friendly interface to search and select relevant functions. Excel's AutoSum feature quickly adds numbers in a column or row, making routine calculations effortless.

Lesson 11. Effortlessly Maintaining Your Excel Worksheets

Excel offers Zoom and multiple views to improve data presentation in sizeable spreadsheets, ensuring that specific areas of interest can be easily accessed and monitored. Methods like the Zoom to Selection or Page Break view facilitate targeted data analysis.

Lesson 12. What-If Analysis in Excel: Navigating Data Tables, Goal Seeking, and Scenarios

This lesson unveils Excel's capabilities beyond spreadsheets by introducing what-if analysis tools: data tables for changing variable properties, goal seeking for reaching targets, and scenario manager to compare different forecasts. Understanding these tools enhances your ability to manage and predict complex data scenarios effectively.

Lesson 13. Incorporating Graphics in Excel Sheets

Excel not only allows data entry but also empowers users to enhance their spreadsheets with images and graphics for increased visual appeal and context. Users can insert pictures from multiple sources, make precise edits like cropping, color adjustments, and apply artistic effects to enrich their dynamic presentations.

Lesson 14. Chart Creation Basics: Making Data Accessible

Charts and diagrams transform worksheet data into engaging visuals, facilitating easier understanding for audiences. The lesson outlines Excel's charting features, including smart tools like Recommended Charts, while exploring various chart types and customization techniques for enhanced data presentation.

Lesson 15. Organizing Information Efficiently Using Excel

Data lists in Excel function as databases for understanding and storing important details like client information, diverging from typical worksheet calculations. By setting field names and using features such as sorting and filtering, you can tailor your data organization to fit specific visualization or reporting needs.

Lesson 16. Harnessing the Power of Forms for Efficient Data Handling

Excel forms offer a streamlined approach to managing overwhelming datasets by allowing targeted data entry and manipulation. Enhance productivity by linking between Excel and Access, utilizing data forms for simple tasks, and customizing worksheet forms for advanced needs.

Lesson 17. The Power of Pivot: Simplifying Complex Data

The Quick Analysis tool facilitates swift pivot table creation by allowing users to select data and preview table options instantly. Formatting pivot tables and inserting slicers further refines data presentation and filtering.

Lesson 18. Beyond the Basics: Header, Footer, and Printing Customization

Using Excel, you can add headers and footers for a professional touch, including details like dates and sheet names. The printing process is streamlined by extensive options in the Backstage view, allowing users to adjust settings, select pages, and customize output dimensions.

Lesson 19. Harnessing the Power of Templates in Excel 2016

Excel's set of customizable templates serves as a powerful tool to quickly create structured and visually consistent workbooks. With the ability to edit or create personalized templates from scratch, you can ensure that your data presentation aligns perfectly with your specific needs.

Lesson 20. Safeguarding and Streamlining Your Excel Experience

Use Excel's sheet and workbook protection to lock cells or prevent unauthorized viewing and editing, ensuring your data remains secure and unaltered. Efficiently save your workbook to your preferred destination using Save or Save As, choosing from a variety of formats and storage options, including cloud services like OneDrive.

In This Course

12 Hours average completion time
1.2 CEUs
20 Lessons
41 Exams & Assignments
189 Discussions
20 Videos
22 Reference Files
40 Articles
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated May 2024

Description

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that comes packaged with the Microsoft Office family of software products. Just like the other programs by Microsoft, Excel can be used for a wide variety of purposes such as creating an address book, grocery lists, tracking expenses, creating invoices and bills, accounting, balance checkbooks and other financial accounts, as well as any other purpose that requires a spreadsheet or table.

This course will cover the many features of Excel 2016 and will teach you how to use them, starting with the simple and working to the most complicated. The good news is that Excel 2016 makes everything easy. By learning how to navigate the program and where to find each feature, operating Excel can become a breeze.

This course will teach you how to:

· Create a spreadsheet

· Format cells, rows, columns, and entire worksheets so they fit and match your data

· Enter data into a spreadsheet

· Use formulas and functions for math, accounting, and totaling.

· Create formulas and functions

· Calculate data

· Create charts and diagrams for your data

· Create data lists and forms

· Create and use pivot tables and pivot charts.

· Work with Excel templates

· Share and protect your worksheets and workbooks

· Use What-If Analysis to determine possible outcomes. For example, sales goals

· And much more

This course was designed to teach you skills you'll need to successfully use Excel 2016. Each lesson contains instructions and illustrations to show you how to use the features, then walks you through step-by-step so you can see how everything is done. You don't need previous experience with Excel to be able to complete this course. This course will start with basic skills, then move forward to more advanced features and techniques. Although you do not need access to Excel 2016 for this course; it is highly recommended. A free trial of Excel 2016 is available on the Microsoft website.

Skills You'll Develop

Advanced Excel formula creation
Strategic data protection and sharing
Comprehensive worksheet formatting
Spreadsheet navigation mastery
Professional data visualization
Data analysis with pivot tables
Seamless data entry processes
Dynamic chart creation skills
Utilizing Excel templates
Efficient data management techniques
What-If analysis proficiency

Skills You'll Develop

Advanced Excel formula creation
Strategic data protection and sharing
Comprehensive worksheet formatting
Spreadsheet navigation mastery
Professional data visualization
Data analysis with pivot tables
Seamless data entry processes
Dynamic chart creation skills
Utilizing Excel templates
Efficient data management techniques
What-If analysis proficiency

More About This Course

Visualize Data Effectively: Design charts and diagrams for impactful presentations.
Secure Your Work: Protect sensitive data with Excel's security options.
Navigate Excel Effortlessly: Become adept with worksheets and workbooks.
Master Excel Skills: Enhance your proficiency in data management.
Utilize Advanced Features: Unlock powerful tools like PivotTables and What-If Analysis.
Automate Calculations: Master formulas and functions for quick solutions.
Create Dynamic Spreadsheets: Transform raw data into structured workbooks.
Leverage Microsoft Tools: Integrate Excel seamlessly with other Office applications.
Enhance Presentation Skills: Format cells and data for professional appearances.
Streamline Data Entry: Use forms and templates to simplify processes.
Manage Large Datasets: Handle extensive information with ease and precision.

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