Microsoft Excel Training Courses

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used to store, organise and manipulate data.

Excel’s column and row interface provide tools for working with numbers, text, and dates. Calculations, charting tools, pivot tables and macro functions allow you to manipulate your data.

A range of data analysis tools helps you track and visualize your data for greater insight. Understanding how to work efficiently with Microsoft Excel is a key skill required in almost any business or organisation today.

Just about anyone who uses a computer. Excel is a bit like a Swiss Army knife. It has a range of tools so you can use it for so many different tasks. Some common uses for Excel are:

• Sorting and Filtering Lists
• Creating Charts
• Budgeting
• Statistical Analysis
• Summarising Data

These are just some of the uses for Excel, there are many more. Excel has a place in just about any business role you can think of, from Business Analysis to Sales Summaries, Attendance Tracking to KPI Reporting. Skills you learn in Excel are transferrable, so you can continue to use and build on them as you progress through your career.

Have you ever wondered why the Excel for Dummies books are so popular? After all, you didn’t get this far in your career by being a dummy, did you? Well, mostly it’s because many of us are self-taught, using Google to find out how to use a function, or we are shown how to use Excel by a work mate.

Although this can be helpful, it also means we spend a lot of time on trial and error, or we are just picking up somebody else’s bad habits.

These habits then spread further across an organisation, so that you might see an entire department working on inefficient, poorly constructed Excel worksheets.

At this point, you might head to the bookstore or do an online search to find an Excel for Dummies book to help with those tricky Excel problems. That’s a step in the right direction, we use reference manuals ourselves. The problem is that it still takes time to find the information you need.

Our Excel courses are designed to show you the key features and tools you need so you can get back to work and apply them right away.

Attending a Microsoft Excel with Keystroke Learning will show you how to use the most efficient methods to achieve your daily tasks. Not only that, but you will discover best practices and shortcuts to make your business tasks even quicker, so you can get on with your day. Our goal is to help you get to the point where you are focussed on the task at hand rather than the tool you are using.

Typically, one of our experienced trainers will walk you through the features and functions of the software, then you will try them out on your own, with tips and guidance on getting the best out of the features. We also encourage participants to ask lots of questions to help you get the most out of your learning experience.

You’ll receive a manual to take away at the end of the course, as well as exercise files so you can practice later, or just to jog your memory when you need it.

It’s big, really big! In Excel versions from 2007 onwards, a spreadsheet has over sixteen thousand columns and well over 1 million rows.

If you want to be specific, it’s 16,384 columns X 1,048,576 rows. That’s over 17 billion cells in one worksheet.

Don’t worry, you will probably never need to use anywhere near that many, but isn’t it nice to know you could if you wanted.