Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that enables enables you to turn data into information using it's built in tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. With Excel, you can save your spreadsheets as a Web pages so you can share your data online, email it, or burn to a CD/DVD. As a teacher, you can use Excel to develop project-based learning exercises for your students.

In this hands-on workshop, users will learn to use Microsoft Excel efficiently to create useful spreadsheets and charts. We will learn to...

• Tour of Excel (basics)
  • Tool Bar
  • Menus
  • Help System
  • Terminology
  • Navigating a spreadsheet
  • Creating/Saving worksheets
• Build a Worksheet
  • Entering Text
  • Entering numbers
  • Moving/re-organizing data
• Using Formulas and Functions
  • Calculate Averages, percentages
  • Pre-defined formulas
• Formatting Guidelines
  • Alignment
  • Number formatting
  • Text formatting
  • Columns/rows height/widths
• Printing Options
• Charting

Throughout this session, you can get help from the Help menu while using Excel. To open the online Help, select Microsoft Excel Help from the Help menu. If you have an Internet connection, you can also point to Office on the Web on the Help menu and choose from several resources that may be of interest to you such as Product News, Frequently Asked Questions, and Online Support. You can also go to http://www.microsoft.com/excel for all of the latest information.