A warm welcome to the Microsoft Excel course by Uplatz.

Microsoft Excel is a software developed by Microsoft that allows users to enter, organize, format and analyze data using a spreadsheet system. Excel is a part of Microsoft Office suite and is compatible with other applications within the Office suite.

Excel is most commonly used for storing, organizing, and manipulating data along with visualization of data in the form of charts and graphs. Excel is popularly used across all industries, domains, academic institutions, businesses, and for accomplishing personal tasks such as managing home budget and financial analysis.

Excel features the ability to perform basic to advanced calculations, use graphing tools, create pivot tables and create macros. It essentially uses a collection of cells arranged into rows and columns to organize and manipulate data. This information can then be displayed as charts, histograms and line graphs.

Excel permits users to arrange data so as to view various factors from different perspectives. VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is used for programming in Excel, allowing users to create a variety of complex numerical methods. Programmers are given an option to code directly using the Visual Basic Editor, including Windows for writing code, debugging and code module organization.

This Microsoft Excel Training by Uplatz provides a deep-dive into the world of Microsoft Excel and prepares you well for data and analysis related jobs.

The main uses of MS Excel include:

• Data entry & management

• Data manipulation & calculations

• Accounting & financial analysis

• Visualization & charts

• Programming

• Time management

• Project management

• Data modeling & analytics

• Forecasting

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• Almost anything that needs to be stored/managed/organized!

Microsoft Excel course curriculum

• Introduction to Microsoft Excel

• Key in Data

• Font and Alignment

• Cut, Paste, Format Painter

• Ctrl + Keys

• Home Tab and Clipboard

• File Tab

• Sorting & Filtering

• Formulas - General, Financial, Logical, Text, Date & Time, Statistical, Array, more

• Dynamic Formulas

• VLookup & HLookup

• Pivot Tables

• Charts & Graphs

Why Should I Learn Microsoft Excel?

We all deal with numbers in one way or the other. We all have daily expenses which we pay for from the monthly income that we earn. For one to spend wisely, they will need to know their income vs. expenditure. Similarly, a business needs to record and analyze the daily transactions and determine the monthly sales and profit. Educational and government institutions need to maintain a whole lot of data about people, cities, planning work, tenders, contracts, and so on.

Microsoft Excel comes in handy when we want to record, analyze and store such numeric or textual data.

Where can I get Microsoft Excel?

There are number of ways in which you can get Microsoft Excel. You can buy it from a computer software shop or download it directly from the Microsoft website along with purchase of a valid license key for Microsoft Office / Office 365. Remember that Microsoft Excel is part of the Microsoft Office suite of programs.