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Overview

8.0 Credits
ONLINE

Many Excel users have received little or no formal training to help them use the ubiquitous productivity application. This session can help users that wish to improve their Excel® skills to increase their productivity. The material starts by covering basic topics such as time saving tips and keyboard shortcuts and then moves to more advanced areas like conditional formatting and complex formula building. Users that find themselves looking at the spreadsheets that others design and wishing they could do as much with Excel will benefit greatly by taking this course.

Objectives

• Recognize the many keyboard shortcuts that are available to save time and effort.
• Indicate how one would use Excel® Templates, Styles, and Themes to add uniformity to workbooks they design or edit.
• Indicate how a user can design custom number and date formats to meet their specific needs.
• Recognize ways to add security to the workbooks they use. This includes workbook encryption, and the use of sheet level, range level and cell level security features.
• Recognize formula building conventions such as order of operation. 
• Recall how to troubleshoot formulas that are not working properly, and
• Recall how to work with functions in the Excel® function library to create powerful formulas.

Major Topics

This session is taught using a Hands-On methodology. We provide practice files that tie to the examples in the course materials so participants can undertake all the steps in unison with the instructor for a greatly improved learning experience. The topics discussed in this session include:

• Excel shortcuts and time savers.
• Working with templates, formats, styles, and themes.
• Customizing and enhancing Excel®.
• Protecting and securing workbooks.
• Formula building and the excel function library.

Designed For

Accounting and other business professionals that have an understanding of Excel but want to be more proficient as they design and edit workbooks of all types.

Prerequisite

None

Advanced Preparation

None
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