Class Summaries

  Excel 97-Part 1
  Excel 97-Part 2
  Excel 97-Part 3: Macros

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Excel 97 - Part 1                  6 Hours / $195

Lesson 1: Introduction to Excel 97
A) Starting Microsoft Excel 97
B) Overview of the Microsoft Excel workbook concept
C) The Microsoft Excel 97 screen
D) Command menus

Lesson 2: File Operations
A) Opening an existing file
B) Saving a file
C) Closing a file
D) Creating a new file

Lesson 3: Navigating in Excel
A) Moving the active cell within a worksheet
B) Moving between sheets

Lesson 4: Entering Data
A) Enter mode
B) Edit mode
C) Data types
D) Creating formulas: Operators
E) Order of operations

Lesson 5: Working with Ranges
A) Selecting ranges
B) Moving ranges
C) Copying ranges
D) Erasing ranges
E) How copying and moving a range of cells affects formulas

Lesson 6: Absolute vs. Relative Cell References
A) Relative cell references
B) Absolute references

Lesson 7: Functions
A) =SUM()
B) AutoSum
C) Common functions
D) Paste functions
E) AutoCalculate

Lesson 8: AutoFill
A) Right-AutoFill
B) Custom lists

Lesson 9: AutoComplete and AutoCorrect
A) Using AutoComplete
B) Using AutoCorrect

Lesson 10: Cell Operations
A) Inserting a range of cells
B) Deleting a range of cells
C) Inserting a row or column
D) Deleting a row or column
E) Hiding columns
F) Unhiding columns
G) Column width and row height

Lesson 11: Cell Formatting: Changing Number Appearance
A) Custom formatting
B) Format painter

Lesson 12: Budget Exercise

A) Naming a worksheet

Lesson 13: Window Panes
A) Splitting panes
B) Freezing panes
C) Removing panes

Lesson 14: Cell Formatting: Alignment, Fonts, Borders and Colors
A) Cell alignment
B) Choosing fonts
C) Borders and shading
D) AutoFormat

Lesson 15: Cell Protection
A) Protecting a worksheet
B) Unprotecting specified cells
C) Unprotecting a worksheet

Lesson 16: Printing Worksheets
A) Print preview
B) Printing your worksheet
C) Page breaks

Lesson 17: Using Help
A) Accessing help
B) Context-Sensitive help


Excel 97 - Part 2                  6 Hours / $195

Lesson 1: Multiple Worksheets
A) Review: Moving between sheets in a workbook
B) Changing workbook defaults
C) Inserting a new sheet
D) Deleting sheets
E) Renaming worksheets
F) Moving or copying a sheet within a workbook
G) Copying a sheet to another workbook
H) Grouping worksheets

Lesson 2: Names
A) Defining names
B) Using GO TO with range names
C) Applying range names
D) Creating a named formula

Lesson 3: Dates
A) Entering dates
B) NOW and TODAY functions
C) Filling in a date series
D) Calculations with dates
E) Referencing day, month or year

Lesson 4: Finding and Replacing
A) Find
B) Replace

Lesson 5: Logical Functions
A) IF statements
B) Comparison operators
C) The AND function
D) The OR function

Lesson 6: The PMT Function

Lesson 7: Data Tables

A) A Table for one set of variables
B) A Table for two set of variables

Lesson 8: Sorting and Filtering Data
A) Sorting data
B) Filtering and subtotaling data

Lesson 9: PivotTables
A) Creating a PivotTable
B) Changing a PivotTable layout
C) Creating detail reports from the PivotTable

Lesson 10: Lookup Tables

A) VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP
B) Lookup tables with values

Lesson 11: Reorganizing Data
A) Making small worksheets from large worksheets
B) Combining data
C) Transposing

Lesson 12: Linking Worksheets

Lesson 13: Comments
A) Attaching comments to cells
B) Viewing comments
C) Editing comments
D) Printing comments
E) Removing comments

Lesson 14: Charts
A) Creating a chart sheet
B) Creating an embedded chart
C) Modifying a chart
D) Formatting objects
E) Exploding a pie slice
F) Adding arrows in a chart
G) Adding a Text Box
H) Adding data to an existing chart
I) Changing the chart type for an individual data series


             Excel 97 - Part 3: Macros       6 Hours / $195

Lesson 1: Creating and Using Personal Macros
A) What is a macro?
B) Recording a personal macro
C) Running a personal macro
D) Displaying macro instructions
E) Editing a macro
F) Using absolute and relative cell references in a macro

Lesson 2: Creating and Using Workbook Macros
A) Recording and running a workbook macro
B) Adding a macro button to a worksheet

Lesson 3: Using Visual Basic to Write Macros
A) Opening a new module in the Visual Basic editor
B) Displaying a data prompt during macro execution
C) Using a conditional statement in a macro
D) Using a control loop in a macro
E) Additional control statements

Lesson 4: Placing Controls on a Worksheet
A) Placing a combination box and check box on a worksheet/linking a control to worksheet data

Lesson 5: Creating a Custom Macros Toolbar
A) Creating a new toolbar
B) Adding a button to a toolbar/assigning a macro to a toolbar button

Lesson 6: Creating a Custom Macros Menu
A) Creating a new menu
B) Adding an item to a menu/assigning a macro to a menu item

Lesson 7: Using the Visual Basic Help System
A) Displaying visual basic help information


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