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Beginners Microsoft Excel Training Course

This one-day Microsoft Excel beginners training course provides the essentials that you need to get started working with Excel, Microsoft's industry standard spreadsheet application.

Our Beginners Excel course introduces the fundamental features and functions that you might encounter in the day-to-day management of your business data and enables learners to get going with Excel basics at a competent level. By the end of this fundamentals course learners will be able to navigate Excel, format spreadsheets, perform calculations with common math functions, organise data with sorting and filtering and visualise data with charts.

Our private Excel courses cost £450.00 plus VAT p/d inclusive up to 3 learners. Add more people at £50.00 plus VAT p/d up to a limit of 10. Trainer mileage costs apply for on-site courses.

Both our on-site (face-to-face) and virtual classroom Microsoft Excel courses offer a flexible teaching approach and your trainer will call you before the event to discuss your training needs. You can also combine Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Excel training courses to create a blended training programme of up to four days in duration.

Our expert trainers come to you and can deliver this Excel Beginners course at your premises across most regions of mainland UK (including East Midlands and West Midlands, Greater Manchester and the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, Greater London, East Anglia, Bristol area, South East and South West of England etc.), or virtually from anywhere.

Excel Beginners Training Course Prerequisites

No previous knowledge of Microsoft Excel is needed to attend this introductory course. Learners should be able to navigate their way around Windows and/or the Microsoft 365 environment and be able to open, close and save files and folders.

If you already have some self-taught experience with Excel but feel more comfortable starting from scratch, or with a refresher, that's fine too.

Intended Audience

This introductory Excel course is aimed at business professionals and teams who need to become competent using spreadsheets and anyone who needs to get off the starting block managing, analysing or reporting upon small, medium or large datasets including:

• Administrators
• Accountants
• Sales Teams
• Financial Sector Workers
• Customer Service & Sales Representatives
• Analysts
• And any other profession which depends upon data management

On-site Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses in the United Kingdom

Our closed courses for Microsoft Excel are delivered as private classes for your learners offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf courses and topics can often be tailored to meet your particular learning needs.

Excel is one of the most powerful and useful traditional Microsoft Office apps, but also often one with which people can struggle most, and that they find the most frustrating to work with. In fact, having staff who are confident and proficient with MS Excel doesn't only increase productivity and efficiency, it can even be good for morale.

Our entry-level Excel course is the perfect place to start on this journey, and to build confidence and competency working with spreadsheets.

Our trainers know that helping students to work effectively isn't just a business goal, it's also empowering. They aren't just educators, they're also software champions who promote enthusiastic adoption of Excel amongst their trainees. Before the start date they'll discuss training goals with you and the skill-sets that your team need most in order to get started working effectively with Excel.

Our courses can be taught on the following versions: Excel 365, 2024, 2021 and 2019.

Our Regional Microsoft Trainers Come to You

With our on-site Microsoft Excel Beginners courses our regional Excel trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you whether you're in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds, or anywhere else.

This offers a cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Nottinghamshire to Northamptonshire, West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding of Yorkshire and everywhere inbetween.

Virtual Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses - UK & Beyond

If you'd rather that your team learns remotely, these small-group Microsoft Excel courses are also available as live virtual, interactive sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we've all become used to Online learning (and live virtual meetings) it is clear that virtual classroom delivery has some advantages over traditional face-to-face learning.

If you're looking for local training, then you can't get closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Microsoft Excel courses cater for classes of up to 10 and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with the trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is enriched by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

Our virtual classroom Microsoft Excel courses cost £550.00 plus VAT p/day inclusive up to 5 delegates. More learners can be added up to a limit of 10 charged at £50.00 plus VAT per person p/day. Courseware will be provided electronically.

Do you Record your Live Virtual Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses?

In our experience recording live Excel courses delivered via MS Teams isn't necessarily a great idea. Problems include recordings failing due to live Teams updates and also client bandwidth issues caused by streaming meetings and recording simultaneously. In order to avoid disruptions, our instructors do not record our live virtual Microsoft Excel Beginners courses.

We really ❤ helping UK organisations to master Microsoft Excel. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

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How Many People Should Attend Our Private Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses?

Whilst the number of people who attend our private Microsoft Excel courses is essentially up to you and depends on the number of learners you have (up to our ten per course limit), we encourage clients to keep class sizes small. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience and allows the trainer to give individual attention to every student.

What is the Teaching Method for Our Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses?

The teaching methodology for our Excel courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), meaning that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive. With this participatory learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they're studying Excel in-person or via live virtual classroom.

And, whilst we're happy to provide lectures, show-and-tells and drop-in surgeries, the ILT approach is by far the most reliable way to bring your Excel know-how to life in a small-class-size setting.

How Long are Our Microsoft Excel Beginners Courses?

Usual teaching hours are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with a lunch hour and short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across the industry and gives six hours of hands-on Excel learning, which is an optimal day's training for comfortably absorbing and retaining information and completing practice exercises.

If you want a different start time for your course please let us know.

Courses are run week days, during normal business hours.

Why Choose Our Excel Courses?

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Beginners Excel training provided in-person with engaging step-by-step demos, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A Courses: Dynamic and interactive Excel courses with ample time for questions and answers.
  
  
• Flexible Courses: Expert tuition, tailored to your team's knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Excel skills that your trainees need most.
  
  
• Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Beginners Excel training with a limit of 10 participants to ensure personalised attention.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as one or more courses, or as a training rollout bringing entire departments and organisations up to the benchmark of Excel knowledge and confidence needed.

Introduction to Microsoft Excel Training Course Outline

You can combine Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Excel topics and agendas for a blended step-by-step training curriculum of up to four days in duration.

Actual course content may vary, depending upon your learning requirements.

• Module 1: Introducing Microsoft Excel
  1. What are Worksheets?
  2. What are Workbooks?
  3. What are columns and rows?
     
     
• Module 2: Mouse Pointer Functions in Excel
  1. What are the Different Mouse Cursor Symbols?
  2. Select Cell Cursor
  3. Extend and fill Cells Cursor
  4. Insertion Point Cursor
  5. Drag Selection Cursor
  6. Change Row and Column Dimensions Cursor
     
     
• Module 3: Selecting Cells in Excel
  1. Cut, Copy and Paste Cells
  2. Basic Cell Formatting
  3. Moving Cells
     
     
• Module 4: Navigating the Excel Screen
  1. Introduction to Menus, Sheets and Views
  2. Add, Insert, Rename and Re-arrange Worksheets
  3. Scroll Bars, View Buttons and Magnification
  4. Menus and Sub-Menus
  5. Quick Access Toolbar
  6. Customising the Toolbar
  7. The Options Button and Global Settings
     
     
• Module 5: Entering and Editing Excel Data
  1. Formatting Cells for Text, Currency, Dates etc.
  2. What are Formulas, Values and Operators?
  3. Active Cells
  4. Formatting Options for Content Spill
  5. Adjust Column Width
  6. Editing Cells
  7. AutoFill
     
     
• Module 6: Copying and Pasting Excel Data
  1. Menu, Mouse or Keyboard Copy and Paste?
  2. Drag Cells to Copy
     
     
• Module 7: Save, Close and Open Excel Files
  1. Save, Save As
  2. Disk Drive, Network Drive, OneDrive
  3. File Names and Renaming
  4. Opening and Closing a File
  5. Adjust Column Width
  6. Editing Cells
  7. AutoFill
     
     
• Module 8: The File Tab Environment
  1. Open, Save, Print
  2. Info, Recent and Options
     
     
• Module 9: Create a New Excel Workbook
  1. Create a New Workbook from Scratch
  2. Excel Workbook Templates
     
     
• Module 10: Perform Basic Calculations with Predefined Math Functions
  1. What are Formulas and Functions?
  2. Operators, Cell References and Constants
  3. Cell Referencing
  4. Operators and Operator Order
  5. The SUM function and values
  6. The AVERAGE function and values
  7. The COUNT function and values
  8. The MAX and MIN functions and values
  9. Generate formulas with Copilot
     
     
• Module 11: Absolute Referencing For Excel Formulas
  1. What is Absolute Referencing?
  2. Creating a formula with an Absolute Reference
  3. Formula Auditing
     
     
• Module 12: Formatting Excel Worksheets
  1. Number Formatting
  2. Fonts and Styles
  3. Borders
  4. Fill Colour
     
     
• Module 13: Printing Excel Worksheets
  1. Print Settings
  2. Print Preview
  3. Borders
  4. Print Ranges and Print Selection
  5. Create a Print Area
  6. Print Titles
     
     
• Module 14: Visualise your Data with Excel Charts
  1. Create a Simple Chart
  2. Basic Chart Types (Column / Line Charts, Pie / Doughnut Charts, Bar and Area Charts)
  3. Chart Styles
  4. Chart Tools Layout
  5. Adding a Chart Title
  6. Making visual information self-explanatory with a Chart Legend
     
     
• Module 15: Organise and Pinpoint Excel Data with Sorting and Filtering
  1. Sort Options
  2. The Sort Command
  3. Add Levels
  4. Filter a Database
  5. The Filter Command
  6. Sort and Filter with Copliot
     
     

Excel Course Levels: training courses are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users of Microsoft Excel.

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MS Excel Course Levels

Beginners Excel

- introductory topics for working with Excel spreadsheets

Intermediate Excel

- conditional formatting, VLOOKUP, IF, apply formulas across worksheets, database features, security and conditional formatting etc.

Advanced Excel

- What-If Analysis, PivotTables, PivotCharts, Goal Seek, Sparklines, protecting workbooks, formula auditing etc.

Masterclass Excel

- 'zero to hero' three-day intensive Excel course

Excel for VBA beginners

- one or two day introduction to programming with VBA

Excel Power Query course

- Introduction to using Excel Power Query along with Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Power Pivot Measures

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