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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)
04 Nov	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
06 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
15 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	Book
10 Feb	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£675	Book
13 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£495	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
537 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:

"The course was really good and thoroughly enjoyed it, the trainer's knowledge was immense. He explained everything so well. Really great insight to what can be achieved using Power BI, I was invited to attend this course as it is used in my organization. It has given me a taste of what it can be used for."

Alex Litwinski (Merseyside Fire & Rescue Authority)

"I really thought the balance of the course, leaving each member of the team to progress at their own pace with additional help where needed, was excellently carried out and overall this was one of the most informative and enjoyable learning experiences I have had. Huge credit to our trainer for engaging us all in the course and going above and beyond to make sure we got both the most complete and most relevant training we could."

Tim Leadbetter (ista Energy Solutions Ltd)

"Great course. The trainer was really helpful and able to take the course at our pace allowing space to ask questions."

Amy Garry (MLCS3 Ltd)

"The class size was ideal. The trainer provided a thoughtful and entertaining experience, and was clearly well prepared. Remotely signing in was seamless. I needed proper training on SQL, having had to self-teach for several months."

Alexander Mason (Capel Manor College)

"Excellent introduction into PBI, the trainer was great at explaining things and worked through the course at a good pace. Would definitely recommend!"

Thomas Sanderson (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

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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