eLearnAfrica
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Handling and Management in Excel
Packt
  • Start Date: 22 Aug, 2022
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Gain a solid understanding of Excel functions to help you master beginner concepts and analyse data with ease.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Develop your Excel skills


Millions of people use Microsoft Excel worldwide. That’s because when its full potential is unlocked, it can drastically improve productivity and workflow.


On this three-week course, you’ll gain essential skills to help you use Excel for your personal and professional needs.


Following along with interactive activities and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to use Excel to handle and analyse data efficiently.


Learn how to navigate an Excel workbook


Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to create workbooks and enter data before mastering the cut, copy, and paste options.


This understanding will help you start to explore more advanced Excel topics such as functions and formulas.


Unpack key Excel functions


Delving further into workbooks, you’ll explore the page setup and print options to ensure your formatting is correct.


You’ll understand how to navigate rows, columns, and cells and start to work with sheets. You’ll learn how to add, delete, rename, and format sheets, which will be your starting point for handling data.


Understand how to use pivot tables


You’ll gain an introduction to charts and how to use graphics to enhance the charts you create.


Next, you’ll delve into pivot tables to help you quickly summarise large groups of data with ease.


By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to start using Excel to handle and analyse data. You’ll have a solid foundation of knowledge to build on with more advanced Excel functions in the future.


This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to use Excel and its different functions.


You don’t need any prior knowledge as this course will start from the very basics.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

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