This course covers beginning spreadsheet concepts using Microsoft Excel including formatting, formulas and functions, charts, linked worksheets, and pivot tables. Use introductory features of Excel to design and create electronic spreadsheets.

• Enter, edit, and format spreadsheet data including manipulating cells, columns, rows, and worksheets.

• Configure worksheets and workbooks for distribution.

• Develop formulas and use functions (math & trig, statistical, date & time, logical, financial, text, lookup, and database).

Believe it or not, 75% of job requisitions today require some working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Due to its popularity, it is a very common software program most modern business have adopted to collect, organize, and analyze data.

Being proficient in Microsoft Excel or at least having the basic fundamental skills of this spreadsheet software program will give you that edge you may need in a competitive job market. Not to mention in school, especially if you're taking stats or accounting.

This course is typically offered simultaneously with COSA 616, and COSA 617 which are intermediate and advanced skills in Excel; but don't fret if you're still a  novice, I will help you all along the way.

You mean besides a lot of really cool things you just learned you could do with a program you've kind of already been using? 

This is a non-credit course, so unfortunately credits will not be awarded for taking this course; however, you probably have some processes that require skills in using Microsoft Excel (i.e. other courses, procedures at work, etc.). 

You will; however, get access to an industry expert instructor for the duration of the course, tips and tricks many of your classmates and co-workers may not even know, and perhaps a great introduction into possibly challenging the Microsoft Office Certification Exam to obtain credentialing in Microsoft Excel Proficiency.