Excel Essentials covers the core skills that need to be learned to become a functional user of Excel. This unit also covers the skills that are required for competency in the MOS certification exam. There are instructional slideshows, a student workbook, editable Excel workbooks, puzzles and a quiz to consolidate proficiency. Excel Essentials is a complete unit with solutions for all activities – no teacher prep needed. It is suitable for teacher directed learning or self-paced or remote learning. All of these resources are digital for a paper free classroom. The teacher is able to print as well if necessary. Time frame (5 to 8 weeks depending on learner skill level).

Pre-requisites

Competent computer skills, experience with Microsoft applications would be desirable. No previous experience with Excel is required but would be helpful. Competent reading skills with ability to follow instructions is required for this unit. Student needs digital access to files and Internet for videos and quiz. The learner needs Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for digital completion of puzzles.

7 slideshows – made with PowerPoint – references with clear graphic explanations and that cover all the Excel skills required – some slides link to videos for extra knowhow.

1. Excel Basics

2. Formatting

3. Managing Worksheets

4. File Tab

5. Managing Data

6. Calculations

7. Charts and Illustrations

Student Workbook - can be printed or viewed digitally - provides all the learner activities which cover:

• Ribbons, backstage view, formatting cells and data, saving, entering data, borders, pasting data, autofill,
• Sheet tabs, locating data, page setup, headers & footers, importing data, comments, notes
• Hyperlinks, properties, issues, exporting, printing, Excel tables, sorting data, sparklines
• Conditional Formatting, calculations, formulas, function builder, quick analysis tool,
• Text strings formulas, IF function, relative, absolute and mixed references, naming ranges,
• Calculations in tables, creating and formatting charts, alt text, pictures

3 Editable Excel Workbooks with solutions – workbooks and solutions are editable

The learner completes the Excel activities in the 3 workbooks that are set up with activities and ready to go.

Puzzles and Quiz with solutions – both PDF for printing and digital versions in PowerPoint are supplied.

• Excel Screen Label
• Excel Functions Puzzle
• Excel Commands Quiz
• Excel Icon Matchups
• Quiz

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