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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used to organize, analyze, and visualize data. It offers powerful tools for calculations, charting, and data management, making it essential for tasks like budgeting, reporting, and forecasting. Excel is useful for both simple lists and complex data models.

 

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Full Course - Microsoft Excel

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  • How to Use Excel (Video)

    This YouTube video offers a step-by-step introduction to Excel and covers the following topics: 

    • Navigating workbooks
    • Cells
    • Ranges
    • Cursor and mouse pointer shapes
    • Changing the size of rows and columns
    • Using the ribbon
    • Entering data
    • Formatting data

     

    Modality: Video
    Source: YouTube
    Time: 15 minutes, 53 seconds

     

    Learn how to use Excel here

  • Excel Shortcut Keys (Video)

    In this YouTube video, you'll be introduced to fifty shortcut keys in Excel that will save you time, such as changing the formatting of cells or jumping to the start of the workbook. 

     

    Modality: Video
    Source: YouTube
    Time: 15 minutes, 38 seconds

     

    Learn about Excel's shortcut keys here

Cells and Sheets Formulas and Functions Working with Data Advanced Excel

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LinkedIn Learning - Microsoft Excel

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  • Excel Essential Training (Course)
    Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Plus, learn about accessibility features, how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, print in Excel, use Microsoft Copilot with Excel, and more.
     
    Learning Objectives:
    • Describe the process for adding a command to the Quick Access toolbar.
    • Cite the shortcuts for Undo and Redo.
    • Name the keys commonly used to move, copy, and insert data.
    • Explain how to create a chart.
    • Summarize the process for freezing and unfreezing panes.
    • Describe methods for sorting data.
    • Explain how to create Pivot Tables.

     

    Modality: Video
    Source: LinkedIn Learning (Requires paid membership)
    Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes

     

    Learn the essentials of Excel here

  • Excel for Project Management (Video)

    Excel is a powerful tool for managing projects, but it’s easy to be scared off by its hundreds of different formulas and functions. Many project managers barely scratch the surface of what Excel can really do. In this course, author and entrepreneur Jordan Goldmeier shows you how to track your projects in Excel easily and effectively. Learn the best way to set up your spreadsheet to visualize project progress, success, and even failures. Find out how to measure what's most important for projects and how to use that data to inform future decision making. By the end of the course, you'll know the best Excel features, tools, and functions to manage your projects.

     

    Modality: Video
    Source: LinkedIn Learning (Requires paid membership)
    Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes

     

    Learn how to use Excel for project management here

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elevateU - Microsoft Excel

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