Get Started With Microsoft Excel In 1 Hour

Learn to create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in just one hour with step-by-step guidance from a knowledgeable tutor. No prior experience needed.

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Brief Summary

This course is your friendly guide to getting started with Microsoft Excel 2013. Jennifer breaks down everything into easy chunks, helping you create and manage your first spreadsheet in just an hour. Don't stress, it's all about making Excel work for you!

Key Points

  • Step-by-step guide to Microsoft Excel
  • Designed for beginners
  • Covers key actions like formatting cells and using formulas
  • Includes bonus tips and tricks
  • Real-world example: timesheet creation

Learning Outcomes

  • Confidently create a basic spreadsheet
  • Understand how to format cells and enter data
  • Learn to use autofill and basic formulas
  • Know how to reference cells accurately
  • Get tips for advanced features

About This Course

In this course I will show you step-by-step how to set up a fully functioning Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Microsoft's Excel 2013 for Windows is a very useful and powerful piece of spreadsheet software - but it can appear daunting if you have never used it before.

Be daunted and confused no more!

Microsoft Excel can be amazing when you get it to work FOR you. It can save you endless time and perform cool functions. You don't need to spend hours learning with Excel in order to get to grips with the basics and to create your first working spreadsheet.

Jennifer is a knowledgeable tutor who has taught at many ability levels. She uses her experience of teaching absolute beginners to paces this video course well, in bite-sized pieces and with step by step instructions. 

Jennifer prides herself on her ability to assume you know something already, to not leave you confused or as it you are missing a piece of the puzzle.

This Microsoft Excel course does exactly what it says on the tin - 'Get Started with Microsoft Excel in 1 hour'!  You will be able to perform some really key actions which nearly all spreadsheets need - in an hour - for example Jennifer covers how to format cells, enter data, autofill, basic formulas and absolute referencing.The course also contains bonus 'tip' videos to teach you extra features of Excel.

By the end of this introductory course, Jennifer gets you feeling confident about creating your first Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. As an example she uses a real working example of a spreadsheet - a timesheet so that you can use this yourself to calculate your hours worked, overtime, net and gross pay.

Let's get started! Enrol today and see how you too can harness the power of Microsoft Excel!

What do the students have to say about the course? 

"Well, I began this course knowing next-to-nothing about Excel. And I'm only at lesson #5 or #6 (after about 20 minutes time). Nonetheless, her diction is clear -- she's using (I'm assuming), a written script, and thus everything she says is easily understood. Better yet, there is a very-easily-seen yellow circle surrounding her mouse, so there isn't a second of time when one has ANY confusion about the various maneuvers she's employing with her mouse. AND, she neither speaks nor moves too quickly. All in all, I'm impressed . . . and eager to keep forward. (And no, I have no connection with, nor even the slightest knowledge about, the instructor. But she's really good at imparting new information to a total newbee such as myself!)"

"I feel that it was organized well & segmented enough to where it would not overwhelm & can be picked back up easily to continue further study."

"Strong introductory course"

"She is a very thorough instructor. I look forward to taking more classes in the future from her"

"Awesome step by step for a true novice, never goes to fast and explains everything so you can't miss anything. Very refreshing for someone to really take the time and explain every details of the ongoing of steps and doesn't just assume you know everything already."


  • Name and Save a Microsoft Excel Workbook

  • Add Titles and Subtitles

  • Add Columns and Rows

Course Curriculum

1 Lectures

Instructor

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Jennifer Bailey

I achieved my BSc(Hons) in 1996, and then my Post Graduate Certificate In Education in 2001. I am also a member of the Institute for Learning.Since qualifying I have worked in education with a spectrum of ages and abilities in colleges, the workplace and though private work.I have been a Premium Instructor on Udemy for 5 years and have with...

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of asosa Sailiai
Asosa S.
3.5
10 months ago

great beginners match

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ui-avatar of Bill K
Bill K.
5.0
11 months ago

I especially like that Jennifer begins by explaining how to add and format text in a MS Excel Worksheet. This issue has long confused me - but Jennifer has explained the issue very simply with clear instructions. I look forward to the rest of the course!

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ui-avatar of Joyce Litchfield
Joyce L.
5.0
1 year ago

I've enjoyed the pace of the class. Easy to keep up with.

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ui-avatar of Ayaz Hoda
Ayaz H.
5.0
1 year ago

it was very descripted and made sure not many issuses a person can come across

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ui-avatar of Christina Buchholz
Christina B.
5.0
2 years ago

The course is short, sweet, and too the point. The instructor presents the material in an easy to follow format that is very informative.

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ui-avatar of Tania Millar
Tania M.
5.0
3 years ago

Very precise and easy to follow

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ui-avatar of Heidi Bogardus
Heidi B.
5.0
4 years ago

This course was exactly what I was looking for. I have no interest in being an expert but I did need to go from clueless to someone who could use it. Hopefully these skills will help me earn better employment.

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ui-avatar of Chantora Currie
Chantora C.
5.0
4 years ago

I learn a lot. There were things that I was new too, that will help me in my job.

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Robert R.
5.0
4 years ago

So far it is easy to follow in teaching the basics.

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ui-avatar of Rebecca Fabiano
Rebecca F.
5.0
4 years ago

This was a very clear, easy to understand course. I am a total math/numbers-phobe and have been barely getting by with the little knowledge I did have of Excel. At first, I was worried it might be too basic, but very quickly in the second lesson, I learned two easy tricks and continued to learn at least one new thing per lesson. Or, I learned something that clarified WHY that thing is the way it is or does what it does. I had a VERY BASIC understanding of Excel coming into the course, but the tips provided here will make my documents more polished, and more accurate. I would definitely take another course by this instructor and will save this one in case I need to go back for a refresher on a particular tip/tool.

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