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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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Course dates

Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
28 October 2026 Wed Online Fully booked £349 £349 + VAT
3 November 2026 Tue London Islington Available £349 £120 £229 + VAT
9 December 2026 Wed Online Available £349 £100 £249 + VAT
8 January 2027 Fri London Islington Available £349 £70 £279 + VAT
4 February 2027 Thu Online Available £349 £50 £299 + VAT
2 March 2027 Tue London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
1 April 2027 Thu Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
27 April 2027 Tue London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
24 May 2027 Mon Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
24 June 2027 Thu London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
21 July 2027 Wed Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
19 August 2027 Thu London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
15 September 2027 Wed Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
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Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
3 November 2026 Tue London Islington Available £349 £120 £229 + VAT
8 January 2027 Fri London Islington Available £349 £70 £279 + VAT
2 March 2027 Tue London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
27 April 2027 Tue London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
24 June 2027 Thu London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
19 August 2027 Thu London Islington Available £349 £349 + VAT
Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
28 October 2026 Wed Online Fully booked £349 £349 + VAT
9 December 2026 Wed Online Available £349 £100 £249 + VAT
4 February 2027 Thu Online Available £349 £50 £299 + VAT
1 April 2027 Thu Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
24 May 2027 Mon Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
21 July 2027 Wed Online Available £349 £349 + VAT
15 September 2027 Wed Online Available £349 £349 + VAT

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28 October 2026

Wed

Location
Online
Places
Fully booked
RRP
£349
Discount
—
You pay
£349 + VAT

3 November 2026

Tue

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£349
Discount
£120
You pay
£229 + VAT

9 December 2026

Wed

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£349
Discount
£100
You pay
£249 + VAT

8 January 2027

Fri

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£349
Discount
£70
You pay
£279 + VAT

4 February 2027

Thu

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£349
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£50
You pay
£299 + VAT

2 March 2027

Tue

Location
London Islington
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Available
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£349
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—
You pay
£349 + VAT

1 April 2027

Thu

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Online
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£349
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£349 + VAT

27 April 2027

Tue

Location
London Islington
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Available
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£349
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You pay
£349 + VAT

24 May 2027

Mon

Location
Online
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£349
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£349 + VAT

24 June 2027

Thu

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
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£349
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£349 + VAT

21 July 2027

Wed

Location
Online
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RRP
£349
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£349 + VAT

19 August 2027

Thu

Location
London Islington
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Available
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£349
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£349 + VAT

15 September 2027

Wed

Location
Online
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Available
RRP
£349
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£349 + VAT

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.

1,301 Reviews
9.8/10 Satisfaction
99.8% Recommend

I haven't done an online course like this before and I am surprised how it was to learn. I enjoye dit

Susanna – 26 August 2026

Lisa was very personable and clearly has a lot of knowledge. I really appreciated the foresight into the intermediate courses and reference…

Jake – 26 August 2026

Lisa G is a great teacher, truly engaging and helpful. Thank you so much

Poppy – 26 August 2026

Explaining each section and allowing us to take time and understand it all - Patience

Donna – 26 August 2026

Explaining things in different ways so everyone can understand.

Reece – 26 August 2026

Very engaging and interesting sessions - proactive

Molly – 25 August 2026

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 – 20 July 2026

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

Laura – 30 June 2026

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