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Microsoft Excel Intro Course

Get confident with Microsoft Excel on this practical one-day introduction course for beginners.

Covering the interface, formulas, functions, charts and formatting from the ground up.

Get confident with Microsoft Excel on this practical one-day introduction course for beginners. Covering the interface, formulas, functions, charts and formatting from the ground up.

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Microsoft Excel Intro training course

Microsoft Excel Intro Course

This is the ideal course for anyone new to using Excel.

Learn how to create and edit spreadsheets, work with formulas and functions, create charts and graphs to visualise data, apply formatting to make it easier to read and understand your spreadsheets, and sort data for efficient analysis.

This course provides an excellent foundation in Excel, empowering you to confidently manipulate data, and perform basic data analysis tasks.

Once you've completed this course, our Microsoft Excel Advanced course covers PivotTables, VLOOKUP, Power Query and macros.

For those who want to automate Excel with code, our Excel VBA course goes even further.

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26th Aug 26 Wed Online SOLD OUT £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
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24th Sep 26 Thu London Islington Available £349.00 £100.00 £249.00 + VAT
28th Oct 26 Wed Online Available £349.00 £70.00 £279.00 + VAT
3rd Nov 26 Tue London Islington Available £349.00 £50.00 £299.00 + VAT
9th Dec 26 Wed Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
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Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
24th Sep 26 Thu London Islington Available £349.00 £100.00 £249.00 + VAT
3rd Nov 26 Tue London Islington Available £349.00 £50.00 £299.00 + VAT
8th Jan 27 Fri London Islington Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
2nd Mar 27 Tue London Islington Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
27th Apr 27 Tue London Islington Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
24th Jun 27 Thu London Islington Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
26th Aug 26 Wed Online SOLD OUT £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
26th Aug 26 Wed Online Available £349.00 £120.00 £229.00 + VAT
28th Oct 26 Wed Online Available £349.00 £70.00 £279.00 + VAT
9th Dec 26 Wed Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
4th Feb 27 Thu Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
1st Apr 27 Thu Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
24th May 27 Mon Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT
21st Jul 27 Wed Online Available £349.00 £349.00 + VAT

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£349.00
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£349.00 + VAT

26th Aug 26

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Online
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£349.00
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£229.00 + VAT

24th Sep 26

Thu

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London Islington
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£349.00
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£100.00
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£249.00 + VAT

28th Oct 26

Wed

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Online
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£349.00
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£70.00
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£279.00 + VAT

3rd Nov 26

Tue

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London Islington
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£349.00
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£299.00 + VAT

9th Dec 26

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8th Jan 27

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24th May 27

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24th Jun 27

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21st Jul 27

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Course Outline

1

Introduction to Microsoft Excel

The Excel Interface

Opening a worksheet

Amending data in a worksheet

2

Getting to grips with the basics

Using Backstage View

Understanding the Ribbon

Using & customising the Quick Access toolbar

3

Effectively organising your workbooks

Creating, saving and opening a new workbook

Entering numbers, text and dates in a workbook

Deleting cell contents

Quickly sorting data

Adding, deleting and naming sheets

4

Controlling the layout of spreadsheets effortlessly

Inserting columns and rows

Deleting columns and rows

Using AutoFill

Using Cut, Copy and Paste

Using Undo and Redo

5

Uncomplicate tasks by defining and creating calculations

Writing a basic formula

Understanding the order of BODMAS

The Sum function and AutoSum function

Creating statistical functions (Average, Max and Min)

Working with Relative References when copying formulas

6

Beautifully presenting your data

Font formatting

Borders and shading

Number formatting (currency etc)

Alignment options

Clearing formats

7

Fine-tuning your page layout before printing worksheets

Setting page margins & page orientation

Creating a Header & Footer

Printing all or part of a worksheet

Setting print titles for large worksheets

8

Creating different visual representations of your data

Creating a chart

Changing the chart type

Basic formatting of charts

9

Questions and answers

This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.

1,292 Reviews
9.8/10 Satisfaction
99.8% Recommend

The trainning was very good. The explanantion in every step was very clear. TThe trainer is very nice and calm. I really enjoyed the day an…

Geisa – 20th July 26

Well prepared with spreadsheets to work on. Kevin kept me engaged and knew the answer to anything we asked

Laura – 30th June 26

Communication, patience and explaining each section of the course

Annemarie – 27th May 26

Knowledge, presentation, organisation, patience.

Micheala – 27th May 26

Very clear, knowledgeable teaching at a good pace for a basic user. The training materials were easy to access and use.

Terry – 27th May 26

Great at breaking thinks down, helpful tips.

Leanne – 12th May 26

Explaining things in terms I understood and that was relevant using examples of how I would use it.

Bernadette – 12th May 26

Explaining what each function within excel does and how it works

Laura – 12th May 26

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