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Beginning Excel - A Power Point Presentation

MS Excel Introduction

Marty Crabbs
Madison Area Technical College
mcrabbs@madison.tec.wi.us
Note: You will need a copy of the Excel Workbook Mosquito master.xls for some of the exercises described.

Table of Contents: MS Excel Introduction

Topic                                                                      Slide Number
Lesson 1: Welcome and Excel Basics
Course Procedures.................................... 3
Course Plan.......................................... 7
Why Use MS Excel..................................... 10
Starting Excel....................................... 11
Excel Layout......................................... 14
Workbook............................................. 29
Active Cell.......................................... 33
Moving Active Cell................................... 34
Entering a Value..................................... 37
    Text......................... 38
    Numbers...................... 43
    Formulas..................... 50
Saving a Workbook.................................... 63

Lesson 2: Building a Worksheet
Review Exercise (Start a worksheet).................. 69
Lesson Overview...................................... 70
Annotating a Worksheet with Comments................. 71
Ranges............................................... 81
    Adjacent Ranges.............. 83
    Non-adjacent Ranges.......... 86
    Naming Ranges................ 88
Moving Cell Contents................................. 94
Changing Column Width & Row Height................... 101
Copying Cell Contents................................ 106
AutoFill............................................. 111
Formula References (Pasting Formulas)................ 120
Selecting Whole Worksheet............................ 129
Moving/Copying Worksheets............................ 130
Deleting/Inserting Cells, Columns, Rows.............. 135
Accessing Help....................................... 141

Lesson 3: Formatting a Workbook
Review Exercise (Building a Worksheet)............... 147
Lesson Overview...................................... 149
Formatting Numbers................................... 150
Dates in Excel....................................... 156
Custom Formats....................................... 161
Character Formatting................................. 166
    Font......................... 166
    Font Size.................... 169
    Font Appearance.............. 172
    Horizontal Alignment......... 177
    Vertical Alignment........... 184
    Rotating Orientation......... 188
    Indenting Cell Contents...... 191
Borders & Gridlines.................................. 192
Shading/Colors....................................... 199
AutoFormat........................................... 204
Format Painter....................................... 207
Conditional Formatting............................... 211
Spell Checking....................................... 222
AutoCorrect.......................................... 225

Lesson 4: Managing Workbooks
Review Exercise (Formatting a worksheet)............. 227
Lesson Overview...................................... 229
Move Among Worksheets................................ 230
Renaming Worksheets.................................. 235
Moving/Copying Worksheets............................ 240
Inserting/Deleting Worksheets........................ 254
Printing Worksheets.................................. 262
    Paper Size/Orientation....... 263
    Margins...................... 265
    Header/Footer................ 267
    Repeating Rows/Columns....... 273
Print Preview........................................ 278
Manual Page Breaks................................... 283

Lesson 5: Using Functions
Lesson Overview...................................... 292
Defining Functions................................... 293
AutoSum Function..................................... 301
Conditional Sum Function............................. 303
Function Wizard (Paste Function)..................... 309
Examples of Functions................................ 316
    Financial.................... 318
    Date & Time.................. 323
    Math & Trig.................. 328
    Statistical.................. 332
    Lookup & Reference........... 335
    Text......................... 337
    Logical...................... 338
    Informational................ 340
What Next? Course Suggestions........................ 343
Outline of MS Excel Intermediate..................... 344

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