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Duration: 2h 29m Skill level: Beginner + Intermediate Released: 12/12/2022

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Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Plus, check out Excel’s newly revamped Accessibility Checker that helps you adjust fonts and colors to be more readable and add alt-text for images, to make your workbooks more accessible to people with disabilities. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, print in Excel, use Microsoft Copilot with Excel, and more.

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  • Microsoft Excel

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  • Dennis Taylor Excel author at LinkedIn Learning

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Contents

    • Getting started with Excel for Microsoft 365 1m 5s
    • The future of Excel 2m 15s
    • What is Excel used for? 2m 53s
    • (Locked) The Ribbon menu and the Quick Access Toolbar 5m 9s
    • (Locked) Shortcut menus and the Mini toolbar 4m 44s
    • (Locked) Understanding workbooks and worksheets 3m 15s
    • (Locked) Use Excel Help 3m 52s
    • (Locked) Accessibility features in Excel 4m 46s
    • Exploring data entry, editing, and AutoFill 5m 8s
    • (Locked) Working with dates and times 2m 43s
    • (Locked) Using Undo and Redo 2m 48s
    • (Locked) Use Save or Save As 2m 58s
    • Using simple formulas 4m 23s
    • (Locked) Copying a formula into adjacent cells 3m 41s
    • (Locked) Using SUM and AVERAGE 3m 40s
    • (Locked) XLOOKUP and lookup functions 4m 42s
    • Exploring font styles and borders 4m
    • (Locked) Color backgrounds 3m 30s
    • (Locked) Adjusting row heights and column widths 4m 48s
    • (Locked) Applying numeric formats 4m 54s
    • (Locked) Rows and columns: Insert, delete, hide, and unhide 4m
    • (Locked) Moving, copying, and inserting data 3m 36s
    • (Locked) Finding and replacing data 4m 2s
    • (Locked) Page Layout view and commands 5m 37s
    • (Locked) Using Page Break Preview and print setup options 4m 34s
    • (Locked) Creating charts 4m 4s
    • (Locked) Exploring chart types 4m 1s
    • (Locked) Freezing and unfreezing panes 4m 9s
    • (Locked) Splitting screens horizontally and vertically 4m 46s
    • (Locked) Renaming, inserting, and deleting sheets 4m 42s
    • (Locked) Moving, copying, and grouping sheets 3m 41s
    • (Locked) Opening, closing, and saving workbooks 4m 22s
    • (Locked) Sorting data 4m 48s
    • (Locked) Using filters 4m 28s
    • (Locked) Creating PivotTables 4m 44s
    • (Locked) Protecting worksheets and workbooks 4m 33s
    • (Locked) Sharing workbooks and tracking changes 3m 39s
    • (Locked) Continuing your Excel journey 28s

What’s included

  • Practice while you learn 2 exercise files
  • Test your knowledge 11 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone
  • Stay up to date Continuing Education Units

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