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Excel 2016 Essentials: Step-by-Step Course

Excel 2016 Essentials: Step-by-Step Course

Gain command over powerful features and functions to manage professional work easily.

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Course Description

The following article gives a complete idea of the Excel 2016 basic learning course. This course is mainly aimed at novice learners. The Basic learning with Excel includes training on how to open an Excel sheet, the Ribbons and quick access bar and other simple tricks and tools to play with in the Excel sheet. EduCBA brings to you the basic Excel 2016 training course to get you familiar with the functions and concepts in Excel. Excel, in turn, helps one and all to get the basic as well as the advanced training course on the Excel sheet. You can get access to training videos, PDF docs, and many live examples have been taken up to learn Excel in detail. Excel 2016 is thereby thoroughly revised, understanding each and every function in detail. 2MS Excel 2016 and its benefits still remain untapped for the growing professional use and the technological industry to manage an effective workplace and maintain a definite work breakdown structure.

Since Excel is used everywhere, one should have in-depth knowledge of the topic. Advanced as well as basic is on the top priority list. So, first let’s see why exactly it is important to learn Excel and its tools in detail.

So, let’s list down some key benefits of learning the basics and advanced version of Microsoft Excel: With Educba.com, one can master oneself on any of theskills,s be it mobile app development or anything. With a diverse range of 1700 + online courses available, one can become a master in itself through this online portal.

  • The usage is not just limited to one field but exists in statistics, engineering and be it any field.
  • They start up from scratch, with step-by-step and in detail training of this Excel course, and multiple examples have been dealt with to clarify each and every minute doubts of students.

Some essential parts of the basic training course include how to enter a formula in Excel. Some key tips to perform basic mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, etc. This includes how to use the syntax for sum, autosum, multiplication, etc. Simple formulas for division and other related formulas are also included. This also includes the usage of a combination of formulas. This includes using some basic tools like copy and paste. Formatting in Excel is also included in this basic course. Using merge and center, dragging, expanding of cells, using the right thickness of each cell to create tables, setting up borders, inserting graphical interpretations in data be it bar graph, histogram or a pie chart, training on color formatting of cells based upon their values in the best possible manner is also a part of it. The advanced course, in turn, covers Excel with every detail of it, and many new features and formulas and tabs are explored. Some other topics are populating in ascending order, alignment of text, font, and sorting of the column items.

The course overview includes a general introduction about some benefits of learning MS Excel: Here are listed some main benefits, like:

  • Learning will help you understand Excel very easily.
  • You can better understand charts, graphs in this Excel training course.
  • You can gain command over powerful features and functions to manage professional work easily.
  • Become a student cum professional with expertise in excel training.

WHO ARE THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

  •  This is another very important question Who exactly is your target audience?

Students, growing, working professionals who are using Microsoft Excel in their day-to-day lives to manage work tables, use data formatting, are your target audiences. The companies have started using Excel as a very major tool to manage large amounts of data in tables to store employee or any kind of data. This course gives a wide array of formatting in tables in Excel sheets, and the following shows how to format tables.

So when you want to format a table, select the range of cells that you intend to format. Select the format as table, and check out the table style you want to format to. You can also apply a table style to an existing set of data. Select the table style you want to select and scroll through the styles displayed in Excel sheet.

  • These formatting styles can be applied to tables in Excel. How to delete a custom table style?

Go to the home tab in Excel sheet, then Styles group, followed by Format as Table. You can also select a new table style and name it accordingly to your specific preference. All these basic trainings are taken care of at EDUCBA.COM. Then, accordingly user can also select the table element box and click the element and the style of formatting,g and accordingly also remove the given format if the user is not ok with the given formatting style of the table. Using the clear option clears the given format of the table. The user can also select a default table style.

Course objective:

Some of the key objectives of this Excel-based training course include the following:

  • A complete overview of the MS-Excel application, professional suite, and its usage with each and every functionality to use it aptly for managing professional and office tasks efficiently.
  • Enable usage with ease in day-to-day office tasks, and also ensure that all the office staff are well aware of data handling and managing in the Excel suite. All staff must be acquainted with normal day-to-day spreadsheet use on a day-to-day basis. To efficiently master shortcuts and tricks on the database management system. To make sure the users know well the Excel formulas for calculation purposes, withthe  use of charts, graphs histograms, to read and interpret data.
  • At the end of the day, all the users will be able to use Excel to manage data, calculations, formatting tables, drawing conclusions on Excel, formatting worksheets, etc.

SOME FAQS:

  • What is the number of sessions for a normal basic Excel training course?

There are in total 50 lectures and 4 hours of content, and the main objective is to introduce the user to the basics as well as the different tools and techniques used in the Excel sheet. This course is predominantly taken up by students, accountants, finance and non-finance professionals.

  • What are the charges for enrolling on this course?

The course is priced reasonably according to the market rates, and the net charges are 5999 INR.

  • What are the basic benefits of attending this training course on Educba.com?

A complete overview of the MS-Excel application, professional suite, and its usage with each and every functionality to use it aptly for managing professional and office tasks efficiently.

Enable usage with ease in day-to-day office tasks, and also ensure that all the office staff are well aware of data handling and managing in the Excel suite. All staff must be acquainted with normal day-to-day spreadsheet use on a day-to-day basis. To efficiently master shortcuts and tricks on the database management system. To make sure the users know well the Excel formulas for calculation purposes with the use of charts, graphs histograms, to read and interpret data.

At the end of the day, all the users will be able to use Excel to manage data, calculations, formatting tables, drawing conclusions on Excel, formatting worksheet,s etc.

Goals

  • Understanding the Excel work environment.
  • Familiarize yourself with the features of the Excel interface.
  • Understanding the calculation modes and creating and naming worksheets in the basic training course.
  • Some basic clipboard operations like cut, copy, paste, and format painter.
  • MODULE 3 INCLUDES SOME ADVANCED OPERATIONS LIKE:
  • Using formulae and functions and creating charts out of large samples of data, be it a bar graph, a pie chart, a line graph, etc.
  • MODULE FOUR INCLUDES more formatting tools in Excel using merge functionality, merge, wrap, aligning left, right, centre cells in Excel in dollars and currency changes, percentages and accounting, setting up pages in Excel like setting up of backgrounds and margins, etc.
  • This training course indeed helps you to figure out Excel, tools, and shortcuts in depth and will add value to both your business as well as professional career.

Prerequisites

  • A student /employee must be willing to learn during the course. It can be taken up online, so the user must have good internet connectivity to access the learning portals. 
  • The user can also raise queries and send us the doubts offline through email, and all of them will be duly taken up in the next training session and dealt with by our subject matter experts to ensure that there is no tinge of doubt left anywhere. 
  • They also help you undergo the training and then undergo certification courses at a discount to help you learn about the course and then get certified by renowned names in the industry.
Excel 2016 Essentials: Step-by-Step Course

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Overview

1 Lectures
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Getting Started

3 Lectures
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Case Study

1 Lectures
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Data Entry

2 Lectures
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Populating the Case Study in Excel

1 Lectures
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Calculations

1 Lectures
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Formulas

2 Lectures
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Formatting

1 Lectures
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Formatting Table formats

1 Lectures
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Updating a Calculation

1 Lectures
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Percentages and Absolute References

1 Lectures
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Conditional Formatting

1 Lectures
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IF Function

1 Lectures
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COUNTIF and SUMIF Function

1 Lectures
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Graphs & Charts

3 Lectures
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Pie Chart

1 Lectures
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Sorts

1 Lectures
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Filter Function

1 Lectures
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Pivot table

2 Lectures
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Freeze & Split

1 Lectures
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Presentation

2 Lectures
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Print

1 Lectures
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Shortcuts

6 Lectures
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Common errors

1 Lectures
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Useful Excel Functions

5 Lectures
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Data Functions

7 Lectures
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WhatIfAnalysis

4 Lectures
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Arrays

5 Lectures
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Functions for working with Text

2 Lectures
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Pivot Tables

2 Lectures
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Names and Dynamic Range

2 Lectures
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Auditing and Trouble Shooting formulas

2 Lectures
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Form Controls

4 Lectures
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Important Excel Tools

9 Lectures
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Advanced Charts

5 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Corporate Bridge Consultancy Private Limited

Corporate Bridge Consultancy Private Limited

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