Excel 97: Worksheets

Course length: 1 day

Certification

The combined content of the Excel 97: Worksheets and Excel 97: Charting and Organizing Data courses satisfies the requirements for the certified Microsoft Office User for Excel 97 at the Proficient level.

Course description

Overview: Students will learn basic worksheets skills and how to work with data in worksheets.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Software Training course, Windows 98: Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to use an electronic spreadsheet to create basic data reports.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand how to use Windows 98.

What's next: Excel 97: Worksheets is the first course in this series. Software Training’s Excel 97: Charting and Organizing Data, the next course in this series, teaches students how to use the charting and list management capabilities in Excel. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Excel 97: Advanced.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand the disadvantages of paper spreadsheets and the advantages of electronic spreadsheets by exploring both.

Create a basic worksheet by entering text, values, and formulas.

Create formulas by using Excel’s built-in functions.

Move and copy data by using shortcut menus, drag-and-drop editing, and toolbar buttons.

Change the appearance of worksheet data by using a variety of formatting techniques.

Prepare a document for printing by using the spell checking feature and a variety of printing options.

Use the three-dimensional aspect of the Excel workbook environment by creating formulas that refer to cells on multiple worksheets.

Course content

Lesson 1: Excel basics

The paper spreadsheet

The Excel program

The workbook environment

Lesson 2: Entering data and navigating in a worksheet

Entering and correcting data

Saving a file

Using formulas

Opening a second file

Navigation and movement techniques

Lesson 3: Modifying a workbook

Working with ranges

Working with functions

Editing cell contents

Lesson 4: Moving and copying data

Inserting rows and ranges

Moving data

Copying data

Absolute references

Using the Fill Series feature

Lesson 5: Formatting a worksheet

Formatting a worksheet

Number formats and text alignment

Copying and pasting formats

Special and custom formatting

Lesson 6: Printing a worksheet

Checking spelling

Using the Print Preview command

Printing a large worksheet

Additional print options

Lesson 7: Introduction to the workbook environment

Using a multiple-sheet workbook

Creating a chart

Outlining

Spreadsheet Solutions

Additional information: This course has been designed to help students prepare for the Proficient User certification of the Certified Microsoft Office User Certification with Microsoft Excel 97.