Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second SPEAKER: Just getting started with data handling in Excel? Need some help? Look no further, as this course is your chance to exceed your Excel expectations in just three weeks. Follow Microsoft Excel expert Cindy McGuckin from Simon Sez IT, as she shows you how to put the Excel back in excellence. This course will help you create, navigate, and print workbooks in Excel, apply formulas and visual enhancements, design workbooks to display specific data, and identify features, shortcuts, and tips to work more efficiently in Excel. And you can learn all this at any time, at any pace, and from anywhere you want. Step into your future with A Beginner’s Guide to Data Handling and Management in Excel from Packt and FutureLearn.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Data Handling and Management in Excel
Develop your Excel skills
Millions of people use Microsoft Excel worldwide. That’s because when its full potential is unlocked, it can drastically improve productivity and workflow.
On this three-week course, you’ll gain essential skills to help you use Excel for your personal and professional needs.
Following along with interactive activities and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to use Excel to handle and analyse data efficiently.
Learn how to navigate an Excel workbook
Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to create workbooks and enter data before mastering the cut, copy, and paste options.
This understanding will help you start to explore more advanced Excel topics such as functions and formulas.
Unpack key Excel functions
Delving further into workbooks, you’ll explore the page setup and print options to ensure your formatting is correct.
You’ll understand how to navigate rows, columns, and cells and start to work with sheets. You’ll learn how to add, delete, rename, and format sheets, which will be your starting point for handling data.
Understand how to use pivot tables
You’ll gain an introduction to charts and how to use graphics to enhance the charts you create.
Next, you’ll delve into pivot tables to help you quickly summarise large groups of data with ease.
By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to start using Excel to handle and analyse data. You’ll have a solid foundation of knowledge to build on with more advanced Excel functions in the future.
What topics will you cover?
Everyone knows that the Microsoft Office suite is used by millions worldwide. Unlocking its full potential and learning it thoroughly will improve your productivity drastically. This course will help you grasp all the essential and advanced skills for Microsoft Excel 2019 with the help of interesting activities.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe the basics of creating, navigating and printing workbooks in Excel.
- Apply formulas and visual enhancements to workbooks.
- Design workbooks to display relevant data.
- Identify additional features, shortcuts and tips to work more efficiently in Excel.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to use Excel and its different functions.
You don’t need any prior knowledge as this course will start from the very basics.
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Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 25 Feb 2025
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades) Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply. |
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Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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