Excel 2010

Master the Essentials: Excel 2010 Unlocked

Excel 2010

Master the Essentials: Excel 2010 Unlocked

Unlock the power of Excel 2010 to transform how you handle data, seamlessly and efficiently. Imagine mastering a tool that not only simplifies your daily tasks but also revolutionizes the way you approach data management. Whether balancing your checkbook or strategizing business analytics, this course empowers you to unlock Excel's full potential with confidence and ease. You'll discover intuitive techniques that turn complex data into clear, compelling insights--whether you're charting, calculating, or customizing. No more manual drudgery or uncertainty; instead, gain mastery over a dynamic skill set that elevates your personal productivity and professional prowess. Join us, and step into a world where Excel 2010 becomes your most invaluable asset. Don't just use Excel; conquer it.

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Excel 2010

Name: Excel 2010
Price: 95.00 USD

CRN: 8900073

Lesson 1. Excel 2010 Essentials

Mastering Excel 2010 involves becoming familiar with its workbook and worksheet dynamics, including cells, rows, columns, and sheet tabs. Knowing these basics enables accurate data entry and management, setting the foundation for more advanced Excel features.

Lesson 2. Mastering Worksheets and Workbooks in MS Excel 2010

Excel 2010 workbooks allow ease of data management through adding, deleting, and renaming worksheets, contributing to a custom workflow. Hiding and unhiding features aid in data protection while maintaining full access and use during calculations.

Lesson 3. Streamlined Spreadsheet Planning and Entry in MS Excel 2010

Before entering data in Excel 2010, plan by determining your spreadsheet's purpose and required information, including column and row needs. Enter data by clicking a cell, and navigate swiftly using Enter, Tab, and arrow keys while managing labels, values, and formulas effectively.

Lesson 4. Filling Cells with Data: Mastering Excel Series Entry

Efficient data entry in Excel 2010 using the AutoFill feature can quickly generate number, date, or custom series, saving time over manual input. Additionally, tools such as Find and Go To streamline navigation and data retrieval within large worksheets.

Lesson 5. Sprucing Up Your Excel Worksheet: Making Data Appealing and Readable

Breathe life into your Excel worksheets by embracing font customization, borders, and colors, while ensuring clarity with column and row height adjustments. Unlock the full potential of spreadsheet management with advanced features like freezing panes and applying custom cell styles.

Lesson 6. Transforming Workbooks with Images

Excel's Insert tab enables users to augment spreadsheets with images, shapes, and hyperlinks, transforming plain data sheets into interactive and visually engaging documents. By utilizing features like Picture Tools and Format AutoShape, learners can edit and customize visual elements to align with their project goals.

Lesson 7. Customize Your Excel Charts

Excel 2010 replaces the Chart Wizard with a more accessible ribbon interface, empowering users to create a variety of chart types like column, line, and pie charts effortlessly. Selecting and adjusting data ranges is straightforward, enhancing clarity in data representation.

Lesson 8. Formulas and Calculations: The Core of Excel

Lesson Summary 1: Excel's core functionality is built on its ability to use formulas and calculate data effectively, with formulas acting as equations within Excel that can range in complexity. The inclusion of various operators such as arithmetic, comparison, text, and reference operators enhances its utility for diverse calculation needs.

Lesson 9. Efficient Data Handling in Excel Using Forms

Creating data forms in Excel allows users to format and enter information more efficiently, similar to Access. By customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, you can easily integrate the Form feature for streamlined data input.

Lesson 10. Streamline Your Data Sorting with Excel Tables

Excel Tables, first known as 'Lists', facilitate data clarity and manipulation via mechanisms to sort, filter, and summarize information, making it an integral tool for dynamic spreadsheet management. The Table Tools/Design tab offers flexible styling and summation options, while formula auditing aids in precise identification and correction of data errors.

Lesson 11. Enhancing Your Workbook: Tips and Tricks for Advanced Customization

Learn to enhance your workbook by adjusting worksheet tabs and securing sheets, providing better management and protection of data. Master printing techniques such as page setup and selection to ensure optimal output presentation of your workbook.

Lesson 12. Effective Ways to Share Excel Workbooks

Excel 2010 extends collaboration through its web app and SkyDrive, making sharing seamless while providing tools to protect workbook information. Users can recover previous versions, manage shared workbooks with multiple contributors, and utilize comments and templates for streamlined sharing and output.

Lesson 13. Mastering XML for Advanced Excel Users

XML's capability to define data in tagged structures aids Excel in converting imported data into comprehensible tables, facilitating versatile information processing. Excel 2010 introduces robust security measures that protect workbooks from unauthorized access by encrypting content and managing user permissions effectively.

In This Course

14 Hours average completion time
1.4 CEUs
13 Lessons
27 Exams & Assignments
23 Discussions
13 Videos
15 Reference Files
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated May 2023

Description

Most computer-savvy people out there today know that MS Excel 2010 is a spreadsheet program that you can use to record data, create charts, and utilize mathematical equations. However, most people who are familiar with Excel aren't fully aware of all that MS Excel can do. Maybe that's you. You'd be surprised about the things that you can do using Excel that you're currently doing by hand or using other inappropriate software (such as the familiar sibling to Excel, MS Word). But that's okay. That's why we designed this course.

But first, let's dispel the myths that MS Excel 2010 is complicated to use, or to use its mathematical functions and capabilities that you must be good at math, or worse yet, that you must know some complicated programing in order to make it work for you. The truth is, most people like you that use MS Excel use it for a single defined reason. Because there are so many options and features available within the software, most people feel overwhelmed and don't take the time to explore just how many other things they can actually use it for.

With Excel 2010, you can:

Organize, sort, and record data.
Enter in text and mathematical equations.
Keep, track, chart, graph, and compare statistics.
Maintain records.
Create mathematical equations and functions to accurately keep records and statistics whenever data changes.

You can even use Excel to balance your checkbook, calculate the dollar amount you're spending on interest rates for credit cards and mortgages, as well as track your corporate spending accounts! You can also turn around and use Excel for something as simple as listing who is bringing what to the next family reunion. MS Excel can be used for the most complex or simplest of tasks...and all these tasks can be done quite easily when you know how to use Excel 2010.

But telling you how convenient and easy MS Excel 2010 is to use isn't enough--we're going to show you step-by-step. So join us today!

Skills You'll Develop

Spreadsheet formatting techniques
Data visualization techniques
XML data handling skills
Formula development and calculation skills
Visual data transformation
Efficient worksheet navigation
Advanced chart creation
Workbook customization expertise
Data organization and management
Excel table manipulation abilities
Collaboration and sharing proficiency

Skills You'll Develop

Spreadsheet formatting techniques
Data visualization techniques
XML data handling skills
Formula development and calculation skills
Visual data transformation
Efficient worksheet navigation
Advanced chart creation
Workbook customization expertise
Data organization and management
Excel table manipulation abilities
Collaboration and sharing proficiency

More About This Course

Customize Charts Easily: Present data clearly and attractively
Master Worksheets and Workbooks: Streamline data management effortlessly
Make Data Appealing: Improve readability using design tools
Efficient Data Handling: Format and enter data like a pro
Incorporate Visual Elements: Create engaging, interactive spreadsheets
Plan and Enter Data Efficiently: Save time with structured entries
Workbook Customization: Secure and personalize your data
Core Excel Functionality: Utilize complex formulas effectively
Utilize Excel Tables: Sort, filter, and summarize data efficiently
Excel 2010 Essentials: Build a strong foundation in Excel basics
AutoFill Mastery: Enhance your speed in data entry

What You'll Achieve

Define key components of the MS Excel 2010 interface including the ribbon, title bar, and sheet tabs, through a practical worksheet navigation activity.
Demonstrate the use of at least three new features introduced in MS Excel 2010, such as customizable ribbons and sparklines, in a specified data management task.
Define the differences between worksheets and workbooks in MS Excel 2010 by identifying each component's role and purpose.
Demonstrate how to add, delete, hide, and unhide worksheets and columns within an MS Excel 2010 workbook using the sheet tabs and column header bar.
Define and implement a structured plan for organizing spreadsheet data by identifying necessary columns, rows, and headings before entering any information.
Demonstrate efficient data entry in Excel 2010 by utilizing keyboard shortcuts such as Enter, Tab, and Control + Enter for navigation and input automation.
Describe the process of using the AutoFill feature in MS Excel 2010 to create a series of data, such as numbers or dates.
Demonstrate how to use the Track Changes feature in MS Excel 2010 to highlight and review changes made by different users in a worksheet.
Change the font style and size of selected cells to improve the readability of a worksheet.
Apply borders and colors to cells to visually differentiate and highlight important data in a worksheet.
Identify and insert images, WordArt, AutoShapes, and Clip Art into an Excel workbook using the Insert tab options.
Demonstrate picture modifications such as cropping, rotating, compressing, and background removal using Picture Tools in Excel.#
Define and differentiate between at least three types of charts available in Excel 2010 by their graphical representations.

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