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Microsoft Excel 2007: Basic

Description
This course teaches the basic functions and features of Excel 2007. After an introduction to spreadsheet terminology and Excel's window components, students will learn how to use the Help system and navigate worksheets and workbooks. Then they will enter and edit text, values, formulas, and pictures, and they will save workbooks in various formats. Students will also move and copy data, learn about absolute and relative references, and work with ranges, rows, and columns. This course also covers simple functions, basic formatting techniques, and printing. Finally, students will create and modify charts, and learn how to manage large workbooks.

Designated as Approved Courseware for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program, this course will help students prepare for the Excel 2007 exam (70-602). For comprehensive certification training, students should complete Excel 2007: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Objectives
• Start Microsoft Excel; identify the main components of the Excel window and an Excel workbook; use the Help feature; and navigate worksheets.
• Enter and edit text, values, and formulas; insert pictures in a worksheet; use AutoFill; and save and update a workbook.
• Move and copy data; insert and delete ranges; and work with relative and absolute references when creating and copying formulas.
• Use the SUM function, the AutoSum button, and the AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, and COUNTA functions to perform calculations in a worksheet.
• Format text, numbers, rows, and columns in a worksheet; use conditional formatting; copy formats; and use table formats.
• Preview and control Page Setup options for a worksheet; check spelling; find and replace data; print a worksheet; and set and clear a print area.
• Create, format, modify, and print charts based on worksheet data.
• Manage large worksheets and multiple worksheets.

The following is an outline of the syllabus directly from the learning guide:

• Spreadsheet terminology
• Exploring the Excel window
• Getting help
• Navigating workbooks
• Entering and editing data
• Entering and editing text and values
• Entering and editing formulas
• Working with pictures
• Saving and updating workbooks
• Modifying a worksheet
• Moving and copying data
• Moving and copying formulas
• Absolute and relative references
• Formatting text
• Formatting rows and columns
• Inserting and deleting ranges, rows, and columns
• Using functions
• Entering functions
• AutoSum
• Other useful functions
• Formatting worksheets
• Formatting numbers
• Conditional formatting
• Copying formats and applying table formats
• Printing
• Preparing to print
• Page Setup options
• Printing worksheets
• Creating charts
• Chart basics
• Modifying charts
• Printing charts
• Managing large workbooks
• Viewing large worksheets
• Printing large worksheets
• Using multiple worksheets

Instructor: Valerie Dow
Contact: e-mail val@thecomputertrainers.com