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Excel 2010 - Beginning
Last revised: July 28, 2011

Syllabus


Instructor's Notes  
Tutorial 1 - Excel Basics Instructor's notes for Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2 - Formatting a Worksheet Instructor's notes for Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3 - Formulas & Functions Instructor's notes for Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4 - Creating Charts Instructor's notes for Tutorial 4

Recorded Lectures
Unit 1: Spreadsheet Concepts
  Part 1 Spreadsheet concepts; Rows, columns and cells; Moving the active cell; Selecting cells
  Part 2 Entering labels; Entering numeric data; Entering dates and times; Entering formulas
  Part 3 Entering formulas; Using functions; Copying formulas; Inserting and deleting rows/columns; Moving cells; Printing
Unit 2: Formatting a Spreadsheet
  Part 1 Themes; Fonts; Text color; Background color; Text alignment; Number formatting; Date formatting; Merging and centering; Cell borders; Sheet background image
  Part 2 Quick styles; Table styles; Conditional formatting; Hiding rows and columns; Print area; Repeating rows/cols on every page (print titles)
  Part 3 Print titles; Headers & Footers; Manual page breaks; Scaling a page to fit
Unit 3: Formulas and Functions
  Part 1 Absolute vs. relative references; Functions and arguments (concepts); Today function
  Part 2 IF function; PMT function; Absolute vs. mixed references; AutoFill

Assignments  
Tutorial 1 Assignment Assignment sheet for Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2 Assignment Assignment sheet for Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3 Assignment Assignment sheet for Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4 Assignment Assignment sheet for Tutorial 4

Handouts & Data Files  
Competency Checklist List of competencies (skills) gained in this course, presented by tutorials
Student Files

How to Download Student Files
Data files for all four tutorials, stored in zip files.

How to download and extract (unzip) student files.

 
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