A basic understanding of the Macintosh environment is recommended as a prerequisite. This course may be taught using the version of Word and Excel included with Office 98. This course introduces basic spreadsheet creation and concepts with the Excel program. Topics include text and numerical data entry, construction of formulas and simple functions, database basics, and creation of charts and graphs. This class is recommended for new Excel users, and for current users who have had their Excel spreadsheets set up for them.
Participants receive a copy of the course notes.
This course may be taught using the version of Excel included with Office 98. The course begins by using the creation of a course gradebook as a means of looking at some of the intermediate statistical and graphing functions in Excel. An understanding of basic statistical analysis would also be useful but is not required. The PC and Macintosh versions of this class are very similiar. This course may be taught using the version of Excel included with Office 98.