Microsoft Excel 2016 Bootcamp - Zero to Hero Training

Practise exercise

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Course info

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

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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

All right, so it's exam time, or just a practice because you can cheat in this exam, because I'm not thereactually watching you. So you can go back to the videos and check, and if you can't work anything outyou can check out this one here, 'Charts & Graphs', the finished one.

Open up 'Data Clean Up Project'. And I want you to go through, and do these tasks for me. The first one is to go through and remove any empty columns, sorry, any empty rows. Then I want you to go throughand remove any duplicate rows. Let's see if we can find any of those. I'd like you to center some of the columns, you can see over here, we've got 'Showroom Sales' and 'Reseller Sales'. They're kind of worked as center. I want you to change that. I would like you to move it.

At the moment, 'Wholesale Price' is here. I'd like you to move this, so it's just after 'Product Name'. You can see here, 'Product Name'. And then there's the 'Wholesale Price'. I want you drag that column across.I'd also like you to make sure that these are set as currency rather than the wholesale price. So you can see, I want you to add dollar signs to it.

I'd also like you to create four formulas. So, the first two are going to be calculating the 'Total Sales'. There's the sales from our showroom, and the sales from our resellers. I want you to add those two together, and give us the total there.

Then I want you to do a second formula that has the 'Total Sales. So I want you to-- in dollars. So I want you to figure out, take the 'Total Sales', times it by the unit cost of the 'Wholesale Price'. And then give us our price here. Just a tip, remember, '=' is the first thing you need to put in when you're making a formula.The last two are going to be just two totals. So the 'Total Sales' and the numbers, and 'Total Sales' and the price.

Last thing I want you to do is, I want you to re-order your list. So that the one with the most sales are at the top there. You can see, at the moment, it's this 'Paw Patrol' stuff - my son loves Paw Patrol - re-order them this way.

And those are your tasks, go through, do them. Once you're finished, send me a screenshot, just to show that you've done it, and that you made it work. So that's it for our practice exercise. Let's get on to the next video.

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