Excel 2021

Master Tomorrow's Spreadsheets Today

Excel 2021

Master Tomorrow's Spreadsheets Today

Unlock the full potential of your career with "Mastering Microsoft Excel 2021." This isn't just another online course; it's your gateway to transforming data into impactful insights. Whether you're managing budgets or crafting compelling presentations, the skills you gain here will empower you to do more, with less effort. Excel 2021 is your canvas, and this course, your masterclass. With personalized guidance and immersive learning, you'll navigate Excel's most advanced features with ease, unleashing creativity and boosting your productivity exponentially. This is your pivotal moment. By enrolling, you are choosing to redefine your capabilities, stand out in your professional sphere, and achieve unparalleled efficiency. Don't just adapt to the future--shape it. Join us, and watch as your potential transforms into mastery.

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OVERVIEW

CURRICULUM

Lesson 1. Navigating the World of Spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a prevalent tool for managing data, performing calculations, and creating charts, integrating seamlessly within the Microsoft Office suite and offering compatibility with other spreadsheet solutions. Understanding the basic navigation and layout of Excel, such as its rows, columns, and ribbon interface, is essential before delving into more advanced features.

Lesson 2. Data Input: From Worksheets to Workbooks

Excel's built-in calculation capabilities turn basic entry fields into dynamic data-processing tools, offering users the ability to perform formulas by referencing multiple cells, even across sheets. Errors in equations are clearly flagged, ensuring transparency in calculations.

Lesson 3. Excel Formatting Essentials

Excel's formatting tools enable easy customization of spreadsheets with pre-made styles for both cell appearance and text alignment. Users can also personalize data display through font size adjustments, custom number formats, and cell merging to suit different uses.

Lesson 4. Editing Excel Workbooks with Precision and Security

Dynamic formulas in Excel allow for the integration of data from various sheets and external workbooks, promoting streamlined calculations and data integrity. Collaborative features such as commenting and workbook protection bolster data management and security.

Lesson 5. Unleashing the Power of Excel: Function Parameters and Calculations

Using built-in formulas and operators, Excel calculates data by referencing cell coordinates and constants, allowing users to automate tasks like summing and averaging. The AutoSum feature quickly tallies numerical data, while error messages guide formula corrections.

Lesson 6. Visuals in Excel

You can add pictures from your local storage or online through Excel, using Bing search to streamline the process. Once inserted, images can be resized, rotated, and enhanced with effects such as shadows and artistic styles, all within Excel's 'Format' tab.

Lesson 7. Quick Excel Charts Guide

Excel's 'Insert' tab offers numerous chart types and a 'Recommended Charts' feature, simplifying the process of finding the best visual representation for your data. With capabilities to alter design, colors, and chart types, customization is just a click away to fit any data narrative.

Lesson 8. What-If Scenarios: Making Data-Driven Financial Decisions

The What-If Analysis suite in Excel includes Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables, providing a powerful means to simulate various financial outcomes. These tools simplify decision-making processes by showing the impact of changing variables without creating separate spreadsheets.

Lesson 9. Dropdowns Made Easy in Excel

Creating dropdown menus and using data validation in Excel minimizes input errors and improves data consistency. Learn to manage and audit your Excel data effectively, leveraging tools such as forms and formula tracing to enhance productivity and meet organizational needs.

Lesson 10. Pivot Tables and Dynamic Charts Explained

Pivot tables offer an innovative way to reshape data views, allowing multiple analyses from the same dataset, enhancing decision-making processes. Excel's interface supports this with ease by enabling data setup, creation of tables, and insights extraction with minimal effort from users.

Lesson 11. Excel Templates and Macros

Templates in Excel 2019 simplify spreadsheet creation by offering ready-to-use tables with pre-configured analytics for various needs, from budget planning to tutorial aids. Macros complement templates by recording and executing repetitive tasks, thus freeing up time for users to focus on key tasks.

Lesson 12. Importing and Exporting Data with Excel

Microsoft Access and Excel's synergy allows easy data transfers, with CSV files acting as universal intermediaries for databases with differing compatibility. Additionally, Excel's querying capabilities ensure that any changes in the Access database are seamlessly reflected in Excel.

Lesson 13. Sorting and Conditional Formatting in Excel

When handling extensive data in Excel, sorting allows data organization based on specific parameters, such as dates or numerical values, while conditional formatting emphasizes important or outlier values. These functionalities ensure that key information stands out, facilitating better data analysis and decision-making.

Lesson 14. Key Excel Functions for Streamlined Calculations

Excel's numerous functions like conditional, date, and text utilities boost productivity by automating mathematical, logical, and text operations that would otherwise require complex formulas. Utilizing these functions reduces error rates and saves considerable time when setting up spreadsheets.

In This Course

11 Hours average completion time
1.1 CEUs
14 Lessons
22 Exams & Assignments
407 Discussions
20 Videos
30 Reference Files
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated December 2023

Description

Mastering Microsoft Excel 2021: A Comprehensive Online Course

In the modern digital landscape, data is king. How one presents, organizes, and manipulates this data can make all the difference. Enter Microsoft Excel 2021, a part of the Microsoft 365 subscription model, hailed as a premier spreadsheet software. With a dizzying array of features, Excel 2021 offers unparalleled flexibility in crafting intricate, interactive spreadsheets that serve both functionality and aesthetics. However, as with any tool, its true potential shines when wielded with skill.

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by blank cells or baffled by complex formulas, this course is your ultimate guide. Whether you're a novice looking to grasp the basics or an experienced user aiming to delve into the software's more advanced features, this course has been tailored to cater to all levels.

Course Overview:

Start Simple:

Lesson 1: Dive into the world of Excel 2021 with an introduction that sets the tone.
Lesson 2: Familiarize yourself with the basics of workbooks and worksheets, the building blocks of any Excel project.
Lesson 3: Explore the myriad ways to format cells and effectively input data.

Building Complexity:

Lesson 4: Master advanced editing techniques to refine your worksheets.
Lesson 5: Unlock the true power of Excel with formulas, functions, and calculations that turn static data into dynamic stories.

Infuse Creativity:

Lesson 6: Learn to enhance your spreadsheets with images, illustrations, and graphics, adding a layer of visual appeal.
Lesson 7: Channel your inner designer with our guide to crafting effective charts and diagrams.

Deep Dives:

Lesson 8: Discover the 'What-If Analysis', a feature that empowers you to test and project different outcomes based on varying inputs.
Lesson 9: Organize large volumes of data seamlessly with data lists and forms.
Lesson 10: Delve into PivotTables and Charts, versatile tools for data representation and analysis.

Advanced Tactics:

Lesson 11: Automate repetitive tasks and custom functions by creating, recording, and executing macros.
Lesson 12: Integrate data from non-Excel sources, broadening your dataset.

Refining Expertise:

Lesson 13: Streamline and customize your data presentation with filtering, sorting, and conditional formatting.
Lesson 14: Become a formula wizard by employing conditional functions, IF statements, and manipulating date/time and text data.

Every lesson is structured to maximize learning. Clear instructions, vivid illustrations, and HD video tutorials ensure concepts are conveyed in a manner both engaging and easy to digest. Each module includes assignments and exams, allowing students to test and apply their newfound knowledge.

Moreover, while having access to the Excel software will undoubtedly enhance your learning experience, it isn't a mandatory requirement. The course has been designed to be comprehensive enough that even without direct software access, you can grasp concepts and techniques.

Why This Course?

The modern professional landscape demands proficiency in tools like Excel. Whether you're plotting sales data, organizing client information, or simply trying to keep track of personal expenses, Excel 2021 offers the flexibility and power to meet all these needs and more.

However, simply having the software isn't enough. Mastery comes with understanding its vast capabilities and knowing how to harness them effectively. This course is your ticket to transitioning from casual user to a true Excel aficionado.

Enroll now and take the first step towards becoming an Excel power user. Dive into a world where numbers meet narrative, and data tells a tale. Let's turn those spreadsheets into stories together!

Skills You'll Develop

Comprehensive data analysis skills
Simplified financial modeling and forecasting
Efficient data filtering and sorting
Customized and aesthetic data presentation
Automated task execution with macros
Integration of external data sources
Strategic data-driven decision making
Advanced formula and function application
Enhanced problem-solving via What-If Analysis
Effective data visualization creation
Data organization and management

Skills You'll Develop

Comprehensive data analysis skills
Simplified financial modeling and forecasting
Efficient data filtering and sorting
Customized and aesthetic data presentation
Automated task execution with macros
Integration of external data sources
Strategic data-driven decision making
Advanced formula and function application
Enhanced problem-solving via What-If Analysis
Effective data visualization creation
Data organization and management

More About This Course

Automation with Macros: Save time by automating repetitive tasks.
Visual Appeal with Graphics: Enhance spreadsheets with images and graphics.
What-If Analysis Expertise: Project outcomes with scenario simulations.
Secure Editing Precision: Ensure data integrity with precise editing techniques.
Pivot Tables for Insights: Simplify complex data analysis with PivotTables.
Dynamic Data Input Techniques: Master entering and organizing data efficiently.
Design Effective Charts: Simplify data through engaging visual charts.
Advanced Formatting Skills: Elevate spreadsheet aesthetics with expert formatting.
Efficient Data Management: Organize data seamlessly using dropdowns.
Mastering Spreadsheet Navigation: Enhance efficiency with basic navigating skills.
Unleashing Excel's Power: Automate tasks using functions and calculations.

What You'll Achieve

Recognize the basic layout of an Excel workbook, including rows, columns, and ribbon interface functionalities.
Demonstrate the ability to open Excel, navigate menus, and activate cells for data entry and formatting.
Define the difference between a worksheet and a workbook in Excel.
Demonstrate how to enter data and simple formulas into an Excel worksheet.
Identify the steps to format a cell with a specific numerical display, such as currency or custom formatting, in Excel.
Demonstrate how to apply cell styles, including font changes and color highlights, to organize data visually in an Excel spreadsheet.
Identify and demonstrate how to accurately reference cells across multiple sheets and workbooks in Excel by utilizing appropriate syntax and formulas.
Explain and apply the process of protecting worksheets and workbooks in Excel to control and manage user permissions and data security.
Define and apply Excel functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, and ROUND to perform calculations effectively within spreadsheets using appropriate syntax.
Demonstrate the ability to search, identify, and implement Excel functions from the function library, ensuring correct parameter input for accurate data analysis.
Define the steps involved in inserting an image from both local storage and online into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Demonstrate how to apply different formatting effects to images, such as cropping, resizing, and adding artistic effects, within Microsoft Excel.
Describe the steps to create a chart in Excel using the 'Recommended Charts' feature, and format it by changing color and adding a title.