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Overview
In Microsoft® Excel® 2004 for Macintosh: Level 1, you created, edited, formatted, and printed basic spreadsheets. You now have a need to streamline repetitive tasks and display spreadsheet data in more visually effective ways. In this course, you will use Microsoft® Excel 2004 for Macintosh to streamline and enhance your spreadsheets with templates, charts, graphics, and formulas.
Course Objectives
You will apply visual elements and advanced formulas to a worksheet to display data in various formats
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend that you have experience with creating, editing, formatting, saving, and printing basic spreadsheets in Microsoft® Office Excel 2004. Students can obtain this level of skill by taking the following Wintrac course:
- Microsoft® Excel® 2004 for Macintosh: Level 1
In addition, Web browsing experience is strongly recommended.
Target Student
The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the Web. This course helps students who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- create and apply templates.
- create and modify charts.
- work with graphic objects.
- calculate with advanced formulas.
- sort and filter data.
- use Microsoft Excel with the Web.
Certification
This course is one of a series of Wintrac courseware titles that addresses Microsoft Office Specialist (Office Specialist) skill sets. The Office Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsoft’s business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Office Specialist certification.
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Creating and Applying Templates
- Topic 1A: Create a Workbook from a Template
- Topic 1B: Create a Custom Template
- Topic 1C: Working with Comments
- Topic 1D: Create a Hyperlink
Lesson 2: Creating and Modifying Charts
- Topic 2A: Create a Chart
- Topic 2B: Format Chart Items
- Topic 2C: Change the Chart Type
Lesson 3: Working with Graphic Objects
- Topic 3A: Insert Graphics
- Topic 3B: Create AutoShapes
- Topic 3C: Format Graphic Objects
- Topic 3D: Change the Order of Graphic Objects
- Topic 3E: Group Graphic Objects
- Topic 3F: Move, Copy, and Resize Graphic Objects
- Topic 3G: Organization Chart
Lesson 4: Calculating with Advanced Formulas
- Topic 4A: Create and Apply a Name for a Range
of Cells
- Topic 4B: Calculate Across Worksheets
- Topic 4C: Calculate with Date and Time Functions
- Topic 4D: Calculate with Financial Functions
- Topic 4E: Calculate with Statistical Functions
- Topic 4F: Calculate with Lookup & Reference
Functions
- Topic 4G: Calculate with Logical Functions
Lesson 5: Sorting and Filtering Data
- Topic 5A: Sort Data Lists
- Topic 5B: Filter Data Lists
- Topic 5C: Create and Apply Advanced Filters
- Topic 5D: Calculate with Database Functions
- Topic 5E: Add Subtotals to a Worksheet
Lesson 6: Using Microsoft Excel with the Web
- Topic 6A: Export Microsoft Excel Data
- Topic 6B: Import Data from the Web
Platform Requirements
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student
and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum
hardware components:
- 800 MHz PowerPC G4.
- 256 MB of SDRAM.
- 434 MB of available hard disk space is recommended for installing
Excel by using the Office Setup Assistant; 460 MB for installing Excel by
dragging the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to your hard disk. The hard disk
should be in Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format, the default format for Mac OS
X.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- A mouse or other pointing device.
- A 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet access (see your local network administrator).
- A printer (optional).
- A projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.
Software Requirements
- Mac OS X v 10.3
- Microsoft® Office 2004 for Macintosh.
