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With this Learn Excel® 2003 tutorial you will learn:
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Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - The Excel Environment

  • Task pane
  • Title bar
  • Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons
  • Menu bar
  • Intelligent menus
  • Using the Customize dialog box
  • Turn off Intelligent menus
  • Selecting toolbars to appear on screen
  • Name box on Formula bar
  • Standard toolbar commands
  • Permission icon and feature
  • Zoom in and out feature
  • Formatting toolbar
  • Docketing vs. Floating toolbars
  • Adding additional buttons to toolbar
  • Office Assistant
  • Opening worksheets in workbooks
  • Moving between worksheets
  • Status bar

Section 3 - Creating a New Spreadsheet

  • Icons on the formula bar
  • Delete
  • Confirm
  • Insert Function button
  • Moving around the spreadsheet with name box
  • Entering text labels
  • Editing labels
  • Fill handle
  • AutoFill feature
  • Spell-check labels
  • Adding words to AutoCorrect
  • Adding words to Dictionary

Section 4 - Saving Files

  • Save icon
  • Save As dialog box
  • Moving within the dialog box
  • Create new folder
  • Change files and folders display views
  • Save as Type option
  • Changing AutoSave options
  • Learning to save often
  • Shortcuts: (Control+S) to Save
  • AutoRecover documents

Section 5 - Formatting

  • Bold, underline, and italicize text
  • Center and merge titles
  • Selecting a range of cells
  • Selecting noncontiguous cells
  • Shortcut: (Control+B) for bold
  • Widening cells and columns
  • Centering labels
  • Typing cell address in name box
  • Shortcut: (Control+A) to Select All
  • Changing font name and size
  • TrueType fonts

Section 6 - Working with Formulas

  • Formula defined
  • "What-if" scenario defined
  • Using the equal sign
  • Sum function
  • Functions vs. formulas defined
  • Outlining cell ranges
  • Elements of a function formula
  • Arguments in formulas defined
  • Using the fill handle to copy formulas
  • Formulas adjusting while copying
  • Copy and paste formulas using Clipboard

Section 7 - Entering Data

  • Entering data
  • Right aligned numbers and left aligned text
  • Copying data between cells
  • Add borders around cells
  • Using the formatting toolbar
  • Currency icon
  • Inserting row to worksheet
  • Adjusting formulas for new row
  • Adjusting amounts to make balance

Section 8 - Manipulating Worksheets

  • Renaming worksheets
  • Color coding worksheets
  • Changing default setting of number of sheets
  • Adding worksheets to workbooks
  • Deleted worksheets
  • Moving worksheets within workbooks
  • Copying worksheets
  • Renaming worksheets
  • Adjusting scroll bars
  • Navigation controls for worksheets

Section 9 - Printing

  • Print preview
  • Making formatting adjustments in print preview
  • Setting margin in print preview
  • Portrait vs. landscape
  • Using the Scaling commands
  • Add gridlines in print preview
  • Zoom in and zoom out
  • Open print dialog box
  • Selecting printer
  • Print range
  • Printing the active sheet
  • Printing multiple copies
  • Collate pages
  • Closing the document and application
  • Opening the application

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Multiple Open Windows

  • Open new window of same worksheet
  • Using the Arrange dialog box
  • Show different worksheets of same workbook
  • Copying worksheet within a workbook
  • Copying and moving cells between worksheets
  • Saving with multiple worksheets open
  • Rearranging worksheet open windows
  • "What-If" analysis
  • Open multiple workbooks
  • Copying a worksheet to another workbook

Section 3 - Creating Charts

  • Using the Chart Wizard
  • Determining the chart type
  • View sample of chart type
  • Changing the data range
  • Data series defined
  • Changing chart from rows to columns
  • Setting up chart title
  • X axis and Y axis
  • Changing gridlines
  • Setting up chart legend
  • Including labels on chart elements
  • Show data table on chart page
  • Determining chart location
  • Moving and resizing chart

Section 4 - Manipulating Chart Elements

  • Elements of Chart
  • Legend
  • Plot area
  • Chart title
  • Z-Axis label
  • Chart tips
  • Format Elements dialog box
  • Change elements alignment
  • Change element orientation
  • Select noncontiguous cells for charting
  • Adding data labels
  • Add subtitle to chart
  • Resizing pie chart elements
  • Using the Chart toolbar

Section 5 - Conditional Formatting

  • Merge cells icon
  • Shortcut: (Ctrl+;) to add date
  • Conditional formatting defined
  • Using the Conditional Formatting dialog box
  • Analyzing conditional formatting trends
  • Determining variables
  • Using Currency icon
  • Using Borders icon to open Borders toolbar
  • Changing colors of borders
  • Fill handle to fill quarters

Section 6 - Relative and Absolute

  • Relative and Absolute cells defined
  • Using the F4 key to make a cell absolute
  • Comparing relative cell addresses to absolute cell addresses
  • Cell errors to increase cell size
  • Displaying totals on the status line
  • Status bar line:
  • Average
  • Minimum/Maximum
  • Sum

Section 7 - Clipboard and Workspaces

  • Arrange worksheets
  • Changing data on a table affects chart
  • Save workspace command
  • Saving workspace document
  • Clipboard Task Pane
  • Copying items to the clipboard
  • Shortcut: (Ctrl+C) for copy

Section 8 - The Bottom Line

  • Pasting multiple items from Clipboard
  • AutoSum icon
  • Create custom charts
  • Activate gridlines
  • Minor and Major gridlines
  • Reformatting labels
  • Changing orientation of labels
  • Formatting data series
  • Changing color of data series
  • Adding texture to data series
  • Using charts to show relationship
  • Charts linked to data to make changes easy
  • "What-if" scenarios

Section 9 - Hiding Data and Cell Ranges

  • Add headers and footers to worksheets
  • Preprogrammed header and footer options
  • Print preview icon
  • Portrait vs. landscape
  • Hiding data on the worksheets
  • Unhide data
  • Print selected area

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Database Basics

  • Database defined
  • Field or category of information
  • Format Cell dialog box
  • Wrap text
  • Record defined
  • Rows and columns
  • Setting data validation
  • Data Validation dialog box
  • Creating input message
  • Setting Error Alert tab
  • Deleting and hiding input message

Section 3 - Watch Cells and Parsing

  • Range Names defined
  • Named range box
  • Using the range name in a formula
  • Watch cell defined
  • Setting up a watch cell
  • Moving a watch cell
  • Formatting a watch cell
  • Using named range to move to worksheets
  • Adding new columns
  • Format Painter
  • Splitting or "Parsing" data into separate columns
  • Delimited cells
  • Setting data format in parsed cells
  • Parsing Cell Wizard

Section 4 - Forms and Sorting

  • Setting up data form
  • Navigating through a data form
  • Adding a new record in a data form
  • Sort records in a field
  • Setting up a sort key
  • Ascending and descending sort
  • Sort command
  • Designating header row
  • Primary sort keys
  • Secondary sort keys

Section 5 - Advanced Formulas

  • Blank rows in a database
  • No blank rows between records
  • Deleting rows
  • IF Logical function
  • Values IF function conditions
  • Function Wizard
  • Select function category
  • Logical Test function
  • Error indicator
  • Creating formula without wizard
  • Currency style format

Section 6 - Finding Records

  • Data Form options
  • Search Criteria mode
  • Toggle between Form and Criteria mode
  • Criteria defined
  • Multiple Criteria Comparison operators defined

Section 7 - Modifying Data Tables

  • Adding columns to data tables
  • Reformatting new columns
  • Copying using fill handles
  • Fill handle options menu
  • Copying data
  • Format Painter button
  • Setting lodged heading lines

Section 8 - Queries

  • Select specific information within a table
  • Creating a data filter
  • Attaching AutoFilter to table
  • Custom Autofilter dialog box
  • 'AND' 'OR' operators
  • Add subtotals into queries
  • Comparison list in filters
  • Complicated queries
  • Clear data filters
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