Microsoft Excel Essentials: Level 1 Basics - Excel Made Easy (Udemy.com)

Excel: Master Excel basics easily! The step-by-step guide for complete Excel beginners Excel: 2010 Excel 2013 Excel 2016

( 100 Reviews )

Created by: Alan Jarvis

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Increase your chances of promotion, or a better paying job by understanding the most widely used business software in the world
Build your own spreadsheets from scratch, and actually understand how they work!
You will be able to build your own simple, AND complex formulas (and know what the difference is!), and use some of Excels built in functions.
Do in seconds, what a lot of seasoned users take minutes to do!

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

Course Description

Over 54,000 students in 194 countries are becoming Excel masters with THIS series! Check out the FREE PREVIEW LECTURES and SEE WHY!
Excel is the most in commonly used and in demand tool for making sense of data. When you can harness that power, you will be a sought after employee. If you run a business, being proficient in Excel can help you see your business in a completely different light.

The No.1 ranked Excel beginners course on Udemy!
Average review HIGHER than the other Microsoft courses on Udemy!
Average minutes viewed 27% HIGHER than other Microsoft course!
New students join THIS Excel course EVERY DAY!

This is the level for Excel beginners, and we will cover all the Excel basics here.
Great news! I have added a new bonus section to this course "Student Questions Answered"!
In this section you will find custom made tutorials to answer YOUR specific questions! Just drop a message in the discussion board, and if I can't answer it in a simple message, I'll make a video just for you!
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What other students are saying:
"This course is exactly what I was looking for. Simply explained, and in a level of detail I could follow. I really enjoyed it, and will recommend it to all my friend"s Beatrice
"Learned about stuff I never knew" Sarah Jones
"This course gives a solid foundation for a beginner who wants to develop their skills...To sum up Folks, this is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED course. I will be shortly enrolling myself in the next course with Alan of course" Alex
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Next to soft skills, being able to use Microsoft Excel well is probably one of the most sought after skills employers are looking for in today's competitive market. Make sure you can compete

Do you want to master one of the must have skills for any work place?
Are you willing to invest a little time now for your own future?
Want to learn powerful, little known tools most users don't know about?
Do you want to get ahead of your competition?

If you are a complete beginner looking to master Excel, or you just want to brush up on the basics, you've come to the right place. If you want to earn more money by developing a skill set that today's employers demand, this is the course is for you!
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"This is a great course for anyone wishing to learn or brush up on the basics. The presentations are easy to follow!" Pamela Reyna

"This is a very simple, clear and concise and easy to follow course that is perfect for beginners" Sean Loftus
"I loved this course...he made a 20+ minute video tutorial and reverse engineered a sample form I provided him. This unlocked a huge amount of functionality for me. Excellent teacher! David Keegan
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Getting to grips with Excel will give you a distinct advantage in whatever work you currently do, and can open the door to new opportunities.
Many of my students have gone on to get better paying jobs, or even start their own businesses, using the very skills you will soon master.
"I spent over 20 years mastering Excel, so you don't have to!"
In this course we cover in detail all of the basic functions of Excel, and you will learn not only how to use it, but some powerful tools to allow you understand how it works. There is a difference between repeating something and understanding it.
Who is this course aimed at?
Complete beginners, and those who want to build a solid foundation upon which to build their skills.
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"The author of this course takes you through it one simple step at a time, and it is really easy to follow. I like that the lectures are short, and focus on one thing at a time, which was perfect for me. I actually now feel confident using Excel. Well done and thank you!" Nickie Student
"This is the course you need to take if you are a beginner. Alan teaches you what you need to know without the fluff. Recommended!" Lee Johnson
"Excellent tutorial to learn Excel. Thank you" - Shibu Thankachan
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How is it structured?
Together we concentrate on building a single complete project from beginning to end, using all the basic functions and give you a thorough understanding. I know your time is valuable, so most lectures are between 3-5 minutes, allowing you to dip in and out when it's convenient for you. This also maximizes your learning, and makes it easy if you ever need to go back to refresh your memory...no need to click through a 40 minute lecture to find the part you're looking for! There are screencasts, lots of quizzes, presentations, pdfs, downloadable files...all designed to optimize your learning.
What do I get with this course?

Lifetime access to over 4 hours of HD content.
Over 50 bite-size lectures, each covering a specific topic in detail. Some of which I have never seen taught before!
Multiple quizzes to ensure you cement your learning!
Downloadable source file, practice file, and pdf cheat sheets that you can take with you and quickly refer back to if you are away from home.
Access to the Q&A forum, so if you have any questions, you can ask me!

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"Instructor covers the basics very well. He is precise and has a nice presentation style" - Elizabeth Van Rij
"Taught in easy bite size chunks makes the learning fun as well as informative" Joe Long
"If you are beginner and want to master excel, this course is fantastic" Anson Dsouza

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So, Why take THIS course?
I have been using Excel for over 20 years, but there is a differ

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Instructor Details

Alan Jarvis

4.7 Rating
100 Reviews

Over 73,500 Happy Students, in 194 Countries Are Enrolled In My Courses...
Hi, my name is Alan, and I have almost thirty years of experience in teaching various subjects and have held senior management positions at several blue chip and Times Top 100 companies. I now specialise in consultancy, interim work and teaching here on Udemy.
My love for Excel began soon after the program was released. Back then, we really only used it for typing tables in our production planning department. If you can believe it, I was taught to then calculate with a calculator and TYPE the answers into Excel...you'd be surprised how many people I meet who still do this.
There were two turning points for me in my journey. The first was a chance conversation with one of our accountants when I was complaining how slow it was to keep having to flip between worksheets to see different bits of data. He introduced me to VLookups and a new world of possibilities opened up for me...
...I found that I need never have huge paper accountancy pads (remember those?) and a calculator to produce a production plan again! Suddenly, I could produce my plan in 15 minutes, rather than the day and a half it used to take. I began delving into other features of Excel, and finding ways to incorporate them into the planning "system" I had created, and remember this was back in the day when the internet hadn't been invented :)
Through trial and error, I refined my Workbook until I coul