Microsoft Excel 2016 Level 1, 2, 3 Bundle

Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful and easy-to-use spreadsheet application. Nearly everyone who works with numbers has likely used Excel or some other spreadsheet application (such as Lotus 1-2-3) in one form or another. If you are new to Excel and spreadsheets in general, the vast array of features and controls can seem quite daunting. However, once we cover the workings of a spreadsheet and how to deal with the basics, you will be well on your way to becoming an expert in Excel!

One of the most powerful features in Excel is the ability to perform real-time calculations on data within workbooks. Using these powerful features allows you to save time and reduce errors when trying to calculate complex and simple equations.

One of most basic and common tasks that you will complete using Excel is modifying the contents of your worksheets. This topic covers various tools that you can use to work with the data in your worksheets in the most efficient ways possible.

Excel contains many of the text formatting tools that you might be familiar with from other Microsoft Office applications, like Word or PowerPoint. In this topic, we will learn about a variety of different font options, as well as how to use the Format Painter, the mini toolbar, and more.

It is often the case that printouts of your workbook (or parts of your workbook) will be required for one purpose or another. This is especially true for the workplace, where hard copies of data are often requested. Needless to say, knowing how to print data from your workbook is essential. In this topic, we will explore how to use the printing functionality in Excel.

Large workbooks have unique challenges; in particular, navigation can be an especially difficult task. To help with this problem, you can format worksheet tabs to give them individual names and appearances. In this topic, we will learn all of the ways that you can format worksheet tabs. We will also learn how to manage worksheets and view worksheets and workbooks in different ways.

While pure data can be analyzed by those familiar with this data and the tools that Excel provides, sometimes you need graphical assistance to help interpret it. Additionally, charts are an enormous help when people do not have time to study the data and only need a brief overview of the relevant information. Over the course of this topic, you will learn how to create charts of different types, using different methods in Excel 2016.

One of the most powerful tools that you have your disposal when analyzing data in Excel is the PivotTable. While extremely useful, these interactive objects are somewhat cumbersome to execute properly and are often misused. For this reason it is important to understand how they work and gain some fundamental understanding of their purpose before creating PivotTables of your own data.

While the default appearance of your worksheets can be quite plain, Excel offers you access to a variety of graphical objects that you can use to enhance their visual appeal. Over the course of this topic, you will learn all about the various different types of graphical objects that you can add to your worksheets, as well as the various contextual tabs that are used to work with them.

In Excel 2016, you can view, add, or even edit the properties of an existing workbook. These properties can include information such as who authored the workbook, date information, and more. This type information is referred to as metadata, and it can very useful when managing multiple workbooks. Over the course of this topic you will learn all about workbook properties and how to work with them.

To assist you in creating and troubleshooting formulas in a worksheet, the Trace Cells feature will graphically display where data is coming from and where it is going. For example, it can apply a colored outline to a range in a formula, as well as to where the solution of the formula is displayed. During this topic, you will learn about the Trace Cells feature and its related components.

One way that you can add visual elements to data in a worksheet is to use Sparklines. Sparklines are essentially miniature graphs that can be inserted into just one cell in a worksheet. This system allows you to not only present worksheet data visually, but also not overwhelm or obstruct the numerical data itself. Over the course of this topic you will learn about Sparklines and how they can be inserted into your worksheets.

While Microsoft Excel is a very popular application, not everyone may have access to it. If you are in a situation where you need to send Excel data to someone and you are unsure if they have access to Microsoft Excel, you can export the data into a more universal format. Over the course of this topic, you will learn how to export Excel data into different file formats, as well as how to share workbooks with other users.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a commonly used programming language that is frequently used to describe data. As such, you may find yourself needing to import and/or export XML data to and from Excel. Over the course of this topic, you will learn about these tasks.