Microsoft Excel Essentials: Get Started with Workbook Basics

Do you want to turn raw numbers into clear, meaningful insights? Microsoft Excel is the world’s leading tool for organizing, analyzing, and presenting data. Whether you’re tracking expenses, managing lists, or preparing reports, Excel offers a versatile set of features to help you work smarter’not harder. This course introduces you to the core skills and concepts every beginner needs, building a foundation you can use in both professional and personal projects. We will help you build essential Excel skills, including: Navigating the Excel interface, including the Ribbon, worksheets, and cells. Creating and saving workbooks, and sharing them through OneDrive for real-time collaboration. Entering and organizing data with sorting and filtering tools. Writing formulas and using built-in functions to calculate and analyze data. Converting datasets into structured tables for easier management. Applying formatting techniques, including conditional formatting, to make your data clear and engaging. Creating and customizing charts to visualize trends, comparisons, and relationships.

For this course you will need: A copy of Microsoft Excel for desktop (Excel for Microsoft 365 is recommended) or access to Excel Online. Basic computer skills, such as opening files, navigating menus, and typing text. Course duration is approximately 1.5 hours. Learning is divided into three modules. The curriculum design includes video lessons, short hands-on tutorials, and practice opportunities using complimentary datasets. Intended audiences include students, administrative assistants, small business owners, retail managers, project coordinators, and anyone ready to start managing and analyzing data in Excel. This course is intended as the first in a specialization of three courses’beginning with building basic data literacy skills in Excel and culminating with building data literacy in Power BI through our course “From Excel to Power BI.” Let’s get started!