Introduction to Excel 1 Day Course

This beginner Excel course is for anyone who has never used Excel before (or any other spreadsheet package) or those who have some experience editing data but are not confident creating calculations and charts.

Introduction to Excel is now CPD certified.

Our public dates for this course are in the classroom and online, via Live Online Learning. This course is also available for private group bookings for your organisation — please contact us for availability, pricing and customisation options.

Course Overview

Prices

  • Standard Price

    £300*

  • Public Sector Price

    £250*

  • Charity Price

    £200*

  • *Per person, excluding VAT

  • Duration

    1 day

  • Class size

    8 approx.

  • Location

    Interactive online sessions delivered via Zoom. The link is sent to you after booking.

    Classroom

    Public classroom sessions are held at 3rd Floor, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE

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  • Requirements

    Learners must be confident using a mouse and keyboard, and creating and saving documents. If you are not confident with these skills, please see our IT Essentials course. If language is proving a barrier to participation learners may need the support of a smaller group or one to one.

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About Introduction to Excel

CPD Certified course

Introduction to Excel is now CPD certified.

CPD or Continuing Professional Development is an essential, recognised approach to helping you keep your skills and knowledge up to date. It supports conscious and pro-active learning and demonstrates commitment towards your role or profession.

Course Overview

Introduction to Excel can be held either in the classroom or online as Live Online Learning. The outline for both formats is the same, however the classroom session offers more time with the trainer to work on exercises, ask questions and complete activities.

What you will learn

By the end of this beginner one-day Excel course, you will be able to:

  • Create, save, close, open and print spreadsheets
  • Insert and delete rows or columns in your spreadsheet
  • Get Excel to add up numbers automatically
  • Copy formulas in your spreadsheet
  • Sort large databases into order and filter to show only the data you need
  • Alter the look of the numbers and text, insert notes (aka comments), lay out text with merged cells and wrapped text, use cell styles, change the layout for printing.
  • Visually represent numbers and text (as a chart) in your spreadsheet, to make them stand out and easy to understand.

Course Timetable

Getting Started and Formulas

  • Good Spreadsheet Design (Navigating your way around the Excel Screen)
  • Mouse Shapes and Selection techniques
  • Creating a spreadsheet (entering text, numbers and dates)
  • Mathematical Operators (+,-,*,/)
  • Using the Sum feature
  • Copying Formulae with Autofill
  • Other Basic Functions e.g., Average, Min, Max
  • Formatting a Spreadsheet (e.g. number formatting, wrap text, merge cells, alignment, colour, inserting and deleting rows and columns)
  • Inserting Notes (aka Comments)
  • Saving, Closing and Opening a workbook

Working with Long Lists of Data (Databases)

  • Arranging Data Best Practices
  • Freeze Panes
  • Find and Replace
  • Flash Fill
  • Print Preview Page Setup Options e.g., Orientation, Headers and Footers
  • Converting to PDF
  • Sorting
  • Filtering

Data Visualisation

  • Conditional Formatting 
  • Quick Analysis (PC Only)
  • Identifying some different Chart Types 
  • Creating a Chart in Excel
  • Working with different Chart Layouts and Styles
  • Sparklines

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Information for Mac users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

Which Excel course is right for you?

Making sure you’ve booked the right course isn’t always easy.

Luckily we have a handy survey to help you decide.

And if you’re still unsure, call our friendly team on 020 7375 7300 and we’ll help you work out what you need.

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Group Learning Events

If you have three or more learners, a private group course could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

Find out more

What's it like to learn online with Happy?

In this short video, Rachael explains how Happy makes our Live Online Learning IT programmes just as interactive and engaging as our classroom sessions.

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See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options.

First, choose your delivery style — Live Online Learning or in the classroom (at Happy's HQ in London).

The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

Mac Users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.

Your post-course support package

  • Included in the price of both online and classroom programmes
  • 2 years of free access to our IT Helpline
  • Unlimited access - call or email our team as often as you need
  • Ask about any content covered on your course

Did you know...

...we also have a range of higher level courses in Excel?

These range from intermediate to expert, covering pivot tables, formulas and functions, as well as specialised programmes such as Excel Without Maths and business-oriented data analysis.  

Excel for Intermediate Users to teach you time-saving techniques including Conditional Formatting, range names and formulas such as Average, Min, Max and Count IF. Find out more.

Excel for Advanced Users: Analysing Excel Data for Better Business Decisions to enable you to use Excel to quickly and effectively analyse data. Find out more.