Excel

I learned how to use Excel from scratch with Excel for Dummies many years ago. I still use it for financial work to this day.

I love excel! What a great software it is. Yes you can learn with on line tutorials, but you may feel more comfortable with a book.

I've used it for years, and feel I have not touched its capabilities. Of course you will adjust your usage for your needs, and that's where a book might come in handier than an on-line course. That way you can flag certain chapters for items that you will need, and go back to items easily.

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Junie, there are helpsheets and videos on Excel.

Open Excel
Go to Help
Training.

It's free.

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I will try Marydoll

Thanks
Junie

Hi Redrobin51
That sounds great, thanks so much
Junie

I used to deliver Excel inset to teachers, because it was part of the Maths and ICT curriculum. Then I retired and totally forgot everything.

However, I just went into it and messed about. It didn't take long to remember things, but it had changed a bit!

Thanks Amberspyglass

Just to add, unless you have a reason to use Excel you won't get any practice. Like driving a car, you can't just do it once a year. Maybe set up a spreadsheet for your bank account, entering the transactions in columns and rows? That would be a great way to practice and you'd be using it every few days at least. I agree the Dummies books are good.

I find the "Dummies" books are good. There are different versions of Excel so make sure you have the right one. My husband is a self taught whizz at spreadsheets and blined me with science when he was explaining things to me. I took a beginners CLAIT course which covered Excel, Word Processing a Databases and found it really useful. Many local colleges, night schools etc run beginners classes. Good luck.x

YouTube have loads of tutorials as well!

Thanks chestnut
A lot to get my head round, I need an idiots guide.

Junie

Be prepared to spend some time on it. There is so much to learn, and most importantly don't press the print button before checking your 'print preview' as I seem to remember people at work printing 50 empty pages which is such a waste. You can tell the spreadsheet what you want to print by making adjustments in the 'page break preview'. I am using Excel 2007 however.

Thanks JulesJ
Off to have a look

If you go to the main Microsoft website they offer lots of online free training