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Excel Introduction Training Course

One day (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£950

Classroom (Manchester)
£675

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£495

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

You should not attend this course if you're not already comfortable using Windows. The course uses Excel 365, although it will also be relevant for those using Excel 2016 or 2019.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Excel Introduction course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
12 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
06 Sep	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£675	Book
11 Sep	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
10 Oct	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
18 Oct	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£675	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Excel Introduction training course contents

This online course will give you a gentle introduction to Microsoft's ever-popular spreadsheet program. You'll learn how to:

Get started with creating spreadsheets in Excel
Create and copy basic formulae
Format your worksheets so that they look more interesting
Print out your work; and
Create basic charts to illustrate your figures

You don't need any experience to attend this course, although you should be comfortable using Windows and a mouse.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Excel basics

Numbers, text and dates
Moving around
Selecting cells
Working with files
Moving and copying

Creating formulae

Understanding BODMAS and brackets
AutoSum (totals and other functions)
Using the function wizard

Formatting worksheets

Inserting/deleting rows/columns
Fonts, colours and alignment
Boxes, lines and shading
Simple number formats
Using the Format Painter

Basic printing

Using print preview
Margins and orientation
Scaling (fitting to a page)
Printing the selected cells

Worksheets

Inserting/deleting sheets
Moving and copying sheets
Moving between sheets
Linking sheets with formulae

Charts if time

Selecting data
Quick ways to create charts
Changing the chart type
Formatting and printing charts

Cell comments if time

Adding and editing comments
Printing comments

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
558 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"I would absolutely recommend. We had a superb trainer!"

Antoine DuQuesnay (Civil Aviation Authority)

"Amazing courses! Great trainer, pace and content. I literally couldn't have asked for better introductions to SQL and Power BI. Plus I have some many great resources to refer back to in the future :) Thank you!"

Simone Capp (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government)

"This course was very useful and helpful for the work that we will be undertaking at the council in the future. Our trainer was very knowledgeable, very helpful and delivered the course at a very good pace. He was able to answer any questions I had and was able to advise on how we are using the system for our performance data. Will definitely be doing another course with you in the future. I have previously done the Introduction to SQL course, so wanted to expand my knowledge further and learn how I could implement all the different techniques into our own system. I will be exploring the Power BI courses once we are in a position to do so."

Scott Lea (City of Lincoln Council)

"I had done a lot of online tutorials on SQL, so wasn't sure how beneficial attending the course would be for me. However I came away from it feeling a lot more confident in my ability to use SQL and thought it had been a really helpful and useful course to attend. My bosses recommended Wise Owl SQL training to me."

Rachel Hollis (NHS West Yorkshire ICB)

"To be honest, I received the manual(s) and my first thought was 3 days of training with this amount of content and all online - what a nightmare! I'm a software systems trainer myself and know first hand how tech can fail or lag and it's like trying to herd cats keeping your audience engaged and ensuring everyone is on track. We had a first class trainer, extremely knowledgeable and relatable. He kept the training on track and managed to keep everyone engaged. The frequent breaks definitely helped to maintain concentration and the interactive examples helped to bring the theory to life. The fact that he could also see all of our screens added an extra level of cohesion, something that I have (enviably) never seen before. I would have no hesitation in recommending Wise Owl for any future training needs. "

Sandra Hopwood (Reigate and Banstead Borough Council)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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