Training Video List

Microsoft Excel (course 301)

Section 1 videos

Introduction to Microsoft Excel: Get to know the Excel screen and what the various parts of the screen are called, learn how to turn parts of the screen on and off so that you can customise your screen and know how to deal with situations when you use other peoples computers and their Excel screen looks different. Understanding how Zoom works, the active cell and how to preview your work so you can see what it looks like before printing it. Understanding the difference between page break preview and print preview, working with files and understanding Shortcut menus.

301101 – the excel screen (Length – 2:39)

301102 – more about the excel screen (Length – 5:08)

301103 – print preview & zoom + Active cell (Length – 4:49)

301104 – uses for Excel & changing zoom (Length – 3:48)

301105 – changing what you view (Length – 3:02)

301106 – Page Break and Normal Views (Length – 2:24)

301107 – working with multiple files (Length – 2:37)

301108 – Right click and shortcut menu (Length – 3:16)

Section 2 videos

Working with exercise files, understanding the contents of cells and realise where the information is that even though it may appear in a different place or not appear at all. Getting around the program using the mouse and keyboard, moving between sheets and files (workbooks), Inserting and working with sheets.

301201 – Open the exercise files (Length – 3:09)

301202 – The content of cells (Length – 3:16)

301203 – moving around the spreadsheet (Length – 5:02)

301204 – moving around using the keyboard (Length – 4:59)

301205 – moving around workbooks (Length – 3:27)

301206 – working with sheets (Length – 4:30)

301207 – inserting sheets (Length – 2:52)

Microsoft Excel (course 302)

Section 1 videos

Selecting information: Understanding the mouse cursors used within Excel, how to select cells, columns and rows and multiple ranges of information, how to select cells using the keyboard. Copy and Paste: Drag and drop, cut, copy and paste in a worksheet and from one worksheet to another and even between different software programs.

302101 – mouse pointers and active cell (Length – 2:25)

302102 – selecting cells, rows and columns (Length – 3:12)

302103 – select all and multiple ranges (Length – 3:46)

302104 – multiple columns and selecting text (Length – 2:40)

302105 – selecting text using the keyboard (Length – 3:29)

302106 – Drag and drop (Length – 2:51)

302107 – cut and paste (Length – 2:57)

302108 – copy and paste (Length – 3:31)

302109 – copy and paste between sheets (Length – 4:48)

302110 – copy and paste between programs (Length – 3:39)

Section 2 videos

Editing cells: Typing and entering information, editing existing information and entering the changes, using the status bar information, escaping out of cells. Changing column width and row height for single and multiple columns as well as making all the columns the same width and using AutoFit. Database: Creating a simple database, understanding simple database structure (ideal knowledge for mail merge with Microsoft Word), Inserting and deleting columns, using Undo and redo options.

302201 – entering information (Length – 5:48)

302202 – editing information (Length – 3:37)

302203 – Status bar in Excel (Length – 2:25)

302204 – Editing & ESC out of cells (Length – 3:10)

302205 – Column width and row height (Length – 2:22)

302206 – Width of several rows or columns (Length – 2:39)

302207 – AutoFit (Length – 3:16)

302208 – Creating a simple database (Length – 4:51)

302209 – more about databases (Length – 3:33)

302210 – insert and delete columns and rows (Length – 4:17)

302211 – Undo and Redo options (Length – 1:54)

Section 3 videos

Autofill: Automatically fill numbers, dates, number patterns, days, months and years and much more. The fast way to insert sequential numbers and words. Understanding date formatting (this forms the basis for future calculations based on date format),

302301 – Excel – Using AutoFill (Length – 3:10)

302302 – Excel – Autofill a series (Length – 2:29)

302303 – Excel – AutoFill dates (Length – 3:23)

302304 – Excel – AutoFill Shortcut menu (Length – 2:55)

302305 – Excel – AutoFill Days, Months, Years (Length – 3:13)

302306 – Excel – Date formatting (Length – 1:49)

302307 – Excel – increasing numbers using fill handle (Length – 3:17)

302308 – Excel – AutoFill exercises (Length – 2:22)

Microsoft Excel (course 303)

Section 1 videos

Formulas: Entering formulas using the keyboard, arrow keys and the mouse, understand the importance of relative cells references, common formula errors, using multiplication and division and how to combine two formulas in one.

303101 – Excel – Entering formulas using keyboard (Length – 2:57)

303102 – Excel – Entering formulas using arrow keys (Length – 2:16)

303103 – Excel – Entering formulas using the mouse (Length – 3:07)

303104 – Excel – formula errors (Length – 3:07)

303105 – Excel – Why use cell references (Length – 2:53)

303106 – Excel – Multiply and divide (Length – 4:13)

303107 – Excel – Multiple formulas (Length – 4:08)

Section 2 videos

AutoCalculate: Get quick additions and basic functions quickly without having to enter formulas. Functions: Introductions to functions and function syntax, Autosum, Autosum for several and selected ranges and an introductions to other basic functions like Maximum, Minimum, Average and more…

303201 – Excel – AutoCalculate (Length – 3:21)

303202 – Excel – AutoCalculate Options (Length – 3:34)

303203 – Excel – Intro to AutoSum Function (Length – 2:27)

303204 – Excel – AutoSum for several ranges (Length – 2:03)

303205 – Excel – AutoSum for selected ranges (Length – 1:44)

303206 – Excel – Other Basic Functions (Length – 2:35)

Section 3 videos

Functions: Sum function in more detail, using the formula bar and editing functions, using the F2 key, using Autofill to save a lot of time copying (or filling) functions using relative cell references.

303301 – Excel – Typing the Sum Function (Length – 1:52)

303302 – Excel – Sum Function with keyboard and mouse (Length – 1:50)

303303 – Excel – Sum function area (Length – 3:45)

303304 – Excel – Edit Formulas using formula bar (Length – 2:41)

303305 – Excel – Edit functions within the cell (F2 key) (Length – 3:03)

303306 – Excel – AutoFill to copy formulas (relative) (Length – 3:50)

303307 – Excel – Autofill Functions (summary) (Length – 3:46)

Section 4 videos

Formatting: This effects the way your spreadsheet looks, everything from lines, colours, shading, and even the format of text and numbers. Topics include: Currency formatting, date and text formatting, merging cells and centering, Alignment formatting and text control within single and Â merged cells, fill colour, font colour and Borders.

303401 – Excel – Types of Formatting (Length – 3:35)

303402 – Excel – Currency Formatting – menu bar (Length – 3:19)

303403 – Excel – Currency Formatting – toolbar (Length – 1:31)

303404 – Excel – Date Formatting – menu bar (Length – 2:42)

303405 – Excel – Text Formatting + Merge and Centre (Length – 2:55)

303406 – Excel – Alignment Formatting (Length – 3:44)

303407 – Excel – More about Alignment Formatting (Length – 2:49)

303408 – Excel – Alignment Formatting – Text Control (Length – 2:59)

303409 – Excel – Fill Colour and Font Colour (Length – 3:10)

303410 – Excel – Borders (Length – 4:02)

Section 5 videos

Advanced formatting: Autoformats that allow you to quickly make your spreadsheet look very professional, repeat last action, and format painter make it faster for you to duplicate commands and formatting, using format painter with entire spreadsheets to apply multiple formatting in just a couple clicks.

303501 – Excel – AutoFormat (Length – 3:18)

303502 – Excel – AutoFormat Options (Length – 3:24)

303503 – Excel – Repeat Last Action – F4 key (Length – 2:24)

303504 – Excel – Format Painter (Length – 2:45)

303505 – Excel – Format Painter – multiple cells (Length – 2:44)

303506 – Excel – Format Painter – Entire Sheets (Length – 3:01)

Microsoft Excel (course 304)

Section 1 videos

Views: There are several ways you can view your spreadsheet on the screen and each has its own purpose. The most important thing to note is that none of these views affect the way your spreadsheet prints. Topics include: Zoom (set and custom), Print Preview and page break preview versus Normal view. Page Setup: Including page orientation, Scaling and margins, and changing these settings.

304101 – Excel – Print Preview (Length 3:09)

304102 – Excel – Zoom and Print Preview (Length – 2:26)

304103 – Excel – Normal and Page Break Preview (Length – 2:38)

304104 – Excel – Introduction to Page Setup (Length – 3:50)

304105 – Excel – Page Setup – Orientation (Length – 2:33)

304106 – Excel – Page Setup – Scaling (Length 3:14)

304107 – Excel – Scaling using Page Break Preview (Length – 2:34)

304108 – Excel – Page Formatting and Margins (Length – 3:32)

304109 – Excel – Margins in Print Preview (Length – 2:56)

Section 2 videos

Print areas: Setting and clearing defined print areas, understanding the difference between default and set page breaks, Inserting and moving page breaks, Changing the print order of pages, centering the spreadsheet when printing and showing/hiding gridlines and headers.

304201 – Excel – Set and Clear the Print Area (Length – 3:49)

304202 – Excel – Inserting a page break (Length – 2:49)

304203 – Excel – default and set page break (Length – 1:55)

304204 – Excel – set page breaks (Length 2:51)

304205 – Excel – page print order (Length – 3:12)

304206 – Excel – Centering and showing guidelines (Length – 3:12)

Section 3 videos

Introduction to headers and footers, using preset and custom headers and footers, including the use of file information and common fields. Freezing panes when viewing so that certain information headers remain on the screen while you scroll through lists, and Repeating rows so that when the information is printed rows or column headers are repeated. Printing options.

304301 – Excel – Preset Headers and Footers (Length – 2:53)

304302 – Excel – Intro to Custom Headers and Footers (Length – 2:49)

304303 – Excel – Text Header (Length – 2:09)

304304 – Excel – File Information fields in footer (Length – 2:43)

304305 – Excel – Freezing Panes (Length – 2:39)

304306 – Excel – Repeating Rows at top of page (Length – 2:45)

304307 – Excel – Printing multiple sheets (Length – 2:35)

Microsoft Excel (course 305)

Section 1 videos

Charting: Creating a simple chart and learning that charts are dynamic and based up on the information stored somewhere else within the spreadsheet, Inserting labels for heading, the x & y axis, values and more. Learning how to chart mutliple rows and columns

305101 – Opening exercise files (Length – 1:22)

305102 – Creating a basic chart (Length – 3:15)

305103 – Charts are dynamic (Length – 1:52)

305104 – Charts with labels (Length – 2:43)

305105 – Charts with more labels (Length – 2:45)

305106 – Charting multiple rows and columns (Length – 2:58)

Section 2 videos

Charting: Organising your sheet tabs, especially for new chart sheets, changing the data range within the chart wizard, charting several separate data ranges, charting options and different types of charts (pie charts)

305201 – Organising your sheet tabs (Length – 1:49)

305202 – Changing the data range in wizard (Length – 2:11)

305203 – Charting multiple data ranges (Length – 3:39)

305204 – Charting Options for labels (Length – 3:10)

305205 – Using a Pie chart (Length – 2:53)

Section 3 videos

Chart formatting: Understanding chart objects for the purpose of formatting, understanding the buttons in the chart toolbar, and using right-click to format. Formatting a data series, and parts of a pie chart, having 2 different data formats within the one chart and how to get charts into Microsoft Word documents.

305301 – Chart objects (Length 2:57)

305302 – Charting toolbar (Length – 3:09)

305303 – Right-click and format (Lengh – 2:19)

305304 – Format the data series (Length – 3:17)

305305 – Format pie charts (Length – 2:22)

305306 – Two or more chart formats (Length – 1:45)

305307 – Getting charts into Word (Length – 4:20)

Microsoft Excel (course 306)

Section 1 videos

Number and percentage formatting: Understanding the various ways of formatting, including the understanding form percentages to better use them in formulas and functions. Understand that cells can be formatted (even without data in them) so that when you enter data, it can look completely different to what you expected to see. Sometimes cells can be formatted in such a way that even though you enter numbers, a date may be shown. Learn about why in this section.

306101 – Cell number formatting (Length – 2:18)

306102 – More on number formatting (Length – 1:41)

306103 – Percentage formatting (Length – 2:28)

306104 – More about percentage formatting (Length – 2:27)

306105 – Using percentage in formulas (Length – 1:47)

Section 2 videos

Relative and Absolute Cell references: Understand how relative cell referencing works to help you copy formulas and functions quickly. Also understand where they don’t work and why. Absolute cell referencing is a powerful way to reduce the amount of calculations you have to create and can save several columns or rows of typing. Learn the different types of and how to use absolute cell references in this section.

306201 – Relative Cell references (Length – 2:36)

306202 – Where Relative Cell references don’t work (Length – 2:39)

306203 – Absolute Cell references (Length – 2:49)

306204 – Absolute Reference options (Length – 2:00)

306205 – Absolute Row Reference (Length – 1:39)

306206 – Formulas using Absolute Row Reference (Length – 2:28)

Section 3 videos

Learn and understand some fundamental mathematical functions that will help you perform most formulas and functions. These are fundamental skills that will help make more complicated functions easier to understand. Understand how to combine two formulas into one and as a result write much better formulas and get to know the order of mathematical calculations. Using Functions like Maximum, Minimum and average

306301 – Formulas – increasing by percentage (length – 2:36)

306302 – Formulas – mathematics rules (Length – 2:51)

306303 – Formulas – adding multiple ranges (Length – 2:55)

306304 – Formulas – adding multiple ranges using keyboard (Length – 1:23)

306305 – Formulas – Average and Maximum (Length – 2:02)

Section 4 videos

Getting to know the “Insert Functions dialog box”, how to search for a particular function and understand the concept of “arguments” (or syntax) in functions and function categories such as financial, Date and time, maths and trig, etc. Understanding and constructing an IF Statement.

306401 – Functions – Insert Functions dialog box (Length – 3:43)

306402 – Functions – Function Arguments dialog box (Length – 3:42)

306403 – Functions – Function Arguments more info (Length – 2:28)

306404 – Functions – The IF Function (2:54)

306405 – Functions – Constructing an IF Function (Length – 3:54)

Section 5 videos

Comments: Understand the uses for comments. Insert comments that help to explain the purpose of a cell, choose the size and location of the comments and control the way they appear on the spreadsheet. Edit comments and change the formatting within a comment, change the name of the person who made the comment, and make sure that the comment appears all the time or only when you move the mouse to it. Show/Hide Columns/Rows: Learn how to hide columns or rows that contain confidential information. This way you can print the spreadsheet out without the confidential information, but use the confidential information to perform the necessary calculations.

306501 – Misc – Understand and insert Notes (Length – 2:15)

306502 – Misc – Editing Comments (Length – 1:25)

306503 – Misc – Showor Hide Comments (Length – 1:24)

306504 – Misc – Formatting Comments (Length – 1:03)

306505 – Misc – Hide & Unhide columns and rows (Length – 1:39)

Our Advanced Topics (courses 307 to 309) are currently available as workbooks. We are currently producing video demonstrations for each one to provide you with the holistic learning approach of multiple training methods including workbooks, exercises and exercise files, video tutorials and knowledge review.