Essential Spreadsheet Application Skills for Beginners
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Essential Spreadsheet Application Skills for Beginners
Get started with spreadsheets and build essential Excel skills to boost your workplace productivity. Perfect for beginners aiming to work confidently with office software in any professional setting.
Self-Paced
Mentored
Beginner
Duration
1-2 hours/week
Spreadsheet applications are an essential part of productivity at work and school. Understanding how to use spreadsheet apps such as Microsoft Excel can make you a more efficient and valuable worker.
In this course, you will learn the essentials of working with spreadsheet apps. You will learn how to open, save, share, and print spreadsheet files, move around a worksheet, and enter and edit data. You will also explore how to use formulas, functions, charts, and data, and how to work collaboratively with online spreadsheets.
Throughout this short course, you will complete numerous hands-on labs to gain practical experience. Once complete, you will take a graded assessment to demonstrate your knowledge. Demonstrations in this course use Microsoft Excel for the web. However, the skills learned from Excel for the web can be applied to other spreadsheet applications, such as the desktop version of Excel, Google Sheets, and others.
Overall, this course is ideal for beginners who want to get started with the basics of spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel.
This course comprises three purposely designed modules that take you on a carefully defined learning path.
It is a self-paced course, which means it is not run to a fixed schedule with regard to completing modules or submitting assignments. To give you an idea of how long the course takes to complete, it is anticipated that if you work 1-2 hours per week, you will complete the course in 3 weeks. However, as long as the course is completed before the end date, you can work at your own pace.
The materials for each module will become available when you start the particular module. Methods of learning and assessment will include videos, reading material, and online exams questions.
Once you have successfully completed the course, you will earn your Certificate of Completion.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Use fundamental features of spreadsheet apps, such as creating, editing, and saving spreadsheet files.
- How to navigate around workbooks and worksheets, and enter and edit data.
- Understand the components of a formula and use formulas, functions, and charts with data.
- Work collaboratively with others on online spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel.
- Individuals who have never used spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or similar tools, and want to start from scratch.
- Those who have only used spreadsheets for simple tasks (like basic data entry) and now want to expand their skills to include formulas, data visualization, and collaborative features.
- Job seekers and office workeds who want to improve their productivity and efficiency by mastering spreadsheet basics.
Basic computer literacy
Course Outline
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FAQs
This course is designed specifically for beginners. Youll start with the basicslike navigating worksheets, entering data, and saving filesand gradually progress to using formulas, charts, and collaborative features through step-by-step lessons and hands-on labs.
Excel can seem complex at first, but this Microsoft Excel course makes it approachable by focusing on foundational skills and real tasks. With clear demonstrations using Excel for the web, you'll gain practical confidence quickly.
Beginners often find formulas and data handling to be the most challenging. Thats why this course walks you through these topics gradually, helping you practice and build familiarity through guided labs.
Yes. If youve only used Excel for basic data entry or viewing spreadsheets, this course is ideal for expanding your skills. Youll learn how to create and edit spreadsheets, apply formulas, make charts, and more.
Yes. Although the course demonstrates concepts using Excel for the web, the skills you gain are transferable to other spreadsheet tools like Google Sheets and Excel desktop. Its a good starting point if youre looking for a basic Google Sheets tutorial as well.
You can. This course uses Excel for the web, but most of the features youll practicelike data entry, formulas, and chartswork similarly in Google Sheets. Its a useful introduction to both platforms.
Yes, this is a self-paced, online Excel spreadsheet course. You can learn anytime and from anywhere, making it flexible for working professionals or students.
Yes. Upon successful completion and passing the final graded assessment, you will receive a Certificate of Completion to validate your skills.
Youll be able to confidently open, edit, save, and print spreadsheets; enter and manage data; use formulas and functions; create basic charts; and collaborate using online spreadsheets. These are essential skills for anyone working with office productivity software.
Course Offering
Type of certificate
Certificate of completion
About this course
03 Modules
04 Skills
Includes
Discussion Space
03 Hands-On labs
02 Practice Quizzes
01 Graded Quiz
10 Videos
Create
Templates and Charts in Excel Online
Exercises to explore
Getting Started with Excel Online
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