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| Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2007 |
Work with numbers? Then you need to learn Excel 2007. In
this unique six-week online workshop, you'll discover dozens of
shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly
and efficiently. You'll also learn the secrets behind writing powerful
mathematical formulas, using the function wizard to quickly and
automatically calculate statistics, loan payments, future value, and
more. You'll also learn the best ways to sort and analyze data, create
custom charts and graphs, create 3-dimensional workbooks, build links
between files, endow your worksheets with decision-making capabilities,
and automate oft-repeated tasks with macros and buttons.
Please
click here to take this course through an accredited
college or university in your community.
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Syllabus:
A new section of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of
two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each
course at least two months apart.
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end.
Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the
course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released. You
will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the
interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will
automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we
strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its
release.
The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once
the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete
all of your course work, including the final exam.
Week One
Wednesday - Lesson 01
In our first lesson, you'll develop a solid understanding of the Excel
interface. You'll become fluent in the secret language spoken only by
Excel users, you'll discover the best way to correct just about any
mistake you might make in Excel, and you'll find yourself gliding
effortlessly from cell to cell, leaving behind expertly written labels,
numbers, and formulas.
Friday - Lesson 02
In this lesson, you'll learn five simple steps you should always follow
to ensure that your worksheets are always well-planned,
well-constructed, and beautifully formatted.
Week Two
Wednesday - Lesson 03
Our third lesson will teach you the tricks of the Excel masters: a wide
variety of useful shortcuts guaranteed to save you time, energy, and
frustration. We'll also cover the art of file management in this lesson,
so you'll have no trouble saving, retrieving, printing, and emailing
your worksheets, or copying, renaming, and even deleting files. By the
time you finish this lesson, you'll really start to feel like an Excel
pro.
Friday - Lesson 04
Do you know the difference between a relative reference, an absolute
reference, and a circular reference? You will after this lesson. Today,
we focus on writing sophisticated formulas that can help ease us through
some rather sticky scenarios.
Week Three
Wednesday - Lesson 05
With enough practice, most Excel users quickly become adept at
organizing their worksheets across two dimensions: rows and columns. But
only a select few will learn how to take their worksheets into the third
dimension. Today, you will join that exclusive group. Prepare to have
your socks knocked off as you gain hands-on experience in the
construction of three-dimensional workbooks.
Friday - Lesson 06
No Excel course would be complete without a discussion of Excel's
amazing data-crunching capabilities. Today, you'll not only learn how to
build a database in Excel, you'll also learn how to subtotal, sort, and
filter.
Week Four
Wednesday - Lesson 07
In this lesson and the next, we'll explore the exciting world of charts.
You'll build your first graph today, and you'll learn how easy it is to
adjust the chart type, labels, titles, colors, and many other aspects of
your chart.
Friday - Lesson 08
Today, we'll dig deep into Excel's charting capabilities. You'll explore
everything from bar charts and line charts to more prosaic graphs like
the pie chart, the bubble chart, and 3-D charts. You'll find out how to
personalize your charts with photographs, text labels, and drawings, and
you'll discover the best ways to print or otherwise display the truly
impressive charts that you'll be creating.
Week Five
Wednesday - Lesson 09
Excel includes many powerful functions that can automatically perform
some very complicated tasks for you. In today's lesson, you'll learn
some very interesting ways to put these functions to work for you.
You'll 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.
Friday - Lesson 10
We'll continue our exploration of Excel functions with an in-depth look
at Excel's handy financial functions today. By the time this lesson is
over, you'll be able to figure out how much money you'll have when you
retire, when your kids reach college, or just before your next vacation.
You'll be able to calculate the monthly payment on just about any type
of loan, and you'll know how to figure out how long it will take to pay
off your credit cards. You'll even create an amortization table of your
very own, just like the one lenders use to track a loan's payoff amount
over time.
Week Six
Wednesday - Lesson 11
Students often rank this lesson as one of their favorites. Today, you'll
find out how to automate just about any task you find tedious or
time-consuming. You'll 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 very top of your screen.
You'll also learn how macros can be used to reduce just about any
complex task to a single keystroke.
Friday - Lesson 12
I think you'll be intrigued by our final lesson, in which you'll teach
Excel not only how to make decisions, but also how to act upon those
decisions. We'll use a special function in Excel that allows it to make
comparisons and use that comparison as the basis for important decisions
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college or university in your community.
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