Learn the essential features and functionality of Microsoft Excel with this free online excel essentials course. This free online Microsoft Excel Essentials course cuts through the noise and delivers exactly what you need to know if you're brand new to Excel and are looking to use it in a business context. By the end of this course, you'll feel confident using Microsoft Excel. This course was recorded using Excel 2016 but nearly all the functionality shown is applicable in newer and older versions.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 188951 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe how to launch Excel, open workbooks, save workbooks • Describe how to personalise Excel to your needs • Explain about entering data including numbers, dates and text • Describe how to adjust the view you have in Excel • Explain how to use basic formulas • Describe the essential features of Lookup and Logical functions • Explain about time and date in Excel • Describe how to create graphs and charts in Excel |
| Course Code | 1940 |

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