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24 lessons / 2 hours

Overview

Hi there, Welcome to this Microsoft Excel BootCamp. Together we’re going to learn how helpful Excel is in nearly every part of our professional lives.

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Excel. We will stick closely to the powerful built in features of Excel and will not get bogged down in confusing code & complicated formulae.

This training course is project based. We start with a simple company branded invoice and explain how to calculate totals & tax. Using a complex and messy spreadsheet we will clean it up using Excels automatic features. With our new tidy data you’ll learn how easy pivot tables can turn long and hard to understand information into simple tables & beautiful graphs. Before you’re finished you’ll be making helpful drop down menus to help you fill out & sort your financial data. . You will learn how to turn uninspiring profit & loss statements into a good looking, easy to use documents. 


Class projects:

  • Create a quote & invoicing form.

  • Cleaning & formatting messy imported data.

  • Inventory spreadsheet.

  • Pivot tables

  • Regional Sales Report

  • Profit & loss spreadsheet.

  • GST & Tax calculations

  • Graphs for use in Word, PowerPoint, InDesign & Illustrator

  • Creating spreadsheets that work within Word documents.

Who should attend?

  • This course is designed for people who have little or no previous experience in Microsoft Excel. You will start right at the beginning and cover all the basics.

  • Only basic computing skills are necessary - if you can send emails and surf the internet then you’ve found the right training.

  • By the end of the course, you will be producing real world results with Excel.

What do you need?

  • No previous Microsoft Excel experience necessary.

  • You'll need Excel 2016 installed on your laptop. The standard installation of Excel 2016 or the Microsoft Office 365 version is fine.

Course duration 2 hours

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

instructor

I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, my name is Dan, and welcome to this Microsoft Excel Program.

Now, together we're going to learn how super useful Excel is, for pretty much every part of our professional lives.

I made this course for beginners, there is no need for any previous Excel experience, and what we'll do is, we'll stick to a lot of the pre-made, built in amazing features of Excel to work with, rather than getting bogged down in complicated code, or very complicated formulas. We're going to stick to the easy methods. 

This training course is project based. We’ll start with our simple company branded invoice that calculates both totals and the tax. We'll take our really big, ugly messy spreadsheet, and clean it up using Excel's amazing features, and with this new tidy spreadsheet, you'll learn how easy pivot tables can turn long, hard to understand information into simple tables, and beautiful graphs.

Before you're finished, you'd be making super helpful drop down menus to help you fill out, and sort your financial data, turning uninspiring profit/loss statements like this into good looking dashboards like this.

There is also a downloadable exercise file, and a printable cheat sheet we can use.

So my friend, it's time to sign up, and together, we'll get you from Excel zero, to Excel Hero at work.

Now I meant to keep looking at this screen for a while, afterwards, never sure how long though. Long enough?

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