Getting Started
Spreadsheet Basics course
- offered Offered by DataCamp for free (but you do need to create an account)
- uses Uses Google Sheets, but covers basics (how a spreadsheet works, cell references, and formulas) for both Sheets and Excel
- you You get a statement of accomplishment upon completion!
Microsoft Office documentation
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Tutorials
These links are (mostly) to Excel 2013 video tutorials. Most of these instructions will apply to Office 2016 as well. Some of the options will have different locations in the menus/ribbon in other versions of Excel.
You can see what version(s) of Excel each video/article applies to at the bottom of each page.
point to support articles and videos from Microsoft. If they apply to a specific edition of the software, they will identify that near the top.
- Basic tasks in Excel for Windows
- Creating and Editing a WorkbookCreate a workbook in Excel
- Freeze or lock panesrows/columns
- Print a worksheet or workbook
- Tutorial: Import Data into Excel, and Create a Data ModelPrinting Excel Sheets and Workbooks
- Tables and charts
- Mail Merge using an Excel spreadsheet
- Format Prepare your Excel data source for a Word mail merge numbers, dates, and other values in Excel
- Formulas and IF AND OR Functions
- Logical functions - a list of the logical functions (IF, AND, OR, etc) with links to articles on each one
- Conditional Formatting, and Advanced Conditional Formatting
- VLOOKUP
- XLOOKUP function
- PivotTables
- Password protect workbooks and worksheets
- Require a password to open or modify a workbook (Note: Please be careful with both setting and saving the password.)
- Create a macroWork with macros
DataCamp offers a free course on Data Analysis with Spreadsheets that you may also find useful.
Excel 2013 for Windows
- What's New in Excel 2013
- Excel functions (by category, 2013)
- Tutorial: Import Data into Excel 2013, and Create a Data Model
- Create your first Excel 2013 workbook
- Training courses for Excel 2013
Excel 2011 for Mac
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- This page provides links to videos and articles walking you through the functions of Excel
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- Another page linking to both articles and videos guiding you through specific features of Excel
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Workshop Handouts
Preparing an Excel Workbook for Presenting to Others
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Microsoft Exel is a spreadsheet program. Other spreadsheet programs include Calc (OpenOffice.org - Mac and PC platforms), Numbers (iWorks for the Mac), Lotus 1-2-3 (IBM for PCs, though this will no longer be supported after September 30, 2014), and many others. The most important information to know about spreadsheets is that they have limits and a spreadsheet is not the right tool for every for every project. Spreadsheets are great for doing calculations for small data sets, tracking small data sets over the short term, and visually presenting data. Databases are better at tracking large data sets with complex relationships and are meant to be used over long periods. They can also perform calculations on large data sets.
Penn State University Libraries Technology Training's has created a set of guidelines for determining whether or not your project is suitable for a spreadsheet or a database.
Helpful Excel Tutorials
- Arithmetic in Excel
Transferring Data Tables and Graphs to MS Word- (YouTube)
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- Transferring Tables from Excel to Word Transferring Graphs and Charts from Excel to Word