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Excel Series - WKU Glasgow

We are pleased to off MS Excel training near you!

  • 4 hour course: Does your job require you to work with Microsoft Excel? This course provides the straightforward foundation you need to utilize a spreadsheet for business applications. Design concepts, databases, charts, and macros will be examined thoroughly along with the major built-in functions. Students will design several spreadsheets both in and out of class to solve specific business problems. 

    • Understand entry and use of the three data types, use of menus and use of commands
    • Practice cell addressing and manipulation
    • Demonstrate saving, creating and printing spreadsheets and graphs
  • 4 hour course: Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’re ready to move on to our Intermediate Excel course which will introduce you to charting features and database management in Microsoft Excel 2013. You will design worksheets that meet Excel criteria for database functions such as sorting and filtering. In addition, you will cover the following: database design criteria, subtotals, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. With Excel, you’ll learn to work smarter, not harder! (Upon request, course can be divided up into Intermediate Excel 1 and Intermediate Excel 2—both 4 hour courses.)

    • Learn how to link sheets and files together
    • Demonstrate how to use the conditional functions
    • Understand how to use essential list management
  • 4 hour course: See just how much Excel can do! In this course, you will work on creating action queries and macros, linking to and grouping worksheets to create a workspace in excel, using pivot tables and charts, integrating Excel into Word and PowerPoint and finally, working with goal seeking and more advanced formulas. You have many more possibilities with Excel than you think—taking this course will be a helpful eye-opener about a program that’s probably already on your computer!

    • Understand complex functions in Excel
    • Demonstrate understanding of how to integrate Excel into other MS programs
    • Familiarize self with more advanced formulas

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Join your WKU colleagues for our proven series of Excel classes plus select special topics each semester.

  • 4 hour course: Does your job require you to work with Microsoft Excel? This course provides the straightforward foundation you need to utilize a spreadsheet for business applications. Design concepts, databases, charts, and macros will be examined thoroughly along with the major built-in functions. Students will design several spreadsheets both in and out of class to solve specific business problems. 

    • Understand entry and use of the three data types, use of menus and use of commands
    • Practice cell addressing and manipulation
    • Demonstrate saving, creating and printing spreadsheets and graphs
  • 4 hour course: Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’re ready to move on to our Intermediate Excel course which will introduce you to charting features and database management in Microsoft Excel 2013. You will design worksheets that meet Excel criteria for database functions such as sorting and filtering. In addition, you will cover the following: database design criteria, subtotals, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. With Excel, you’ll learn to work smarter, not harder! (Upon request, course can be divided up into Intermediate Excel 1 and Intermediate Excel 2—both 4 hour courses.)

    • Learn how to link sheets and files together
    • Demonstrate how to use the conditional functions
    • Understand how to use essential list management
  • 4 hour course: See just how much Excel can do! In this course, you will work on creating action queries and macros, linking to and grouping worksheets to create a workspace in excel, using pivot tables and charts, integrating Excel into Word and PowerPoint and finally, working with goal seeking and more advanced formulas. You have many more possibilities with Excel than you think—taking this course will be a helpful eye-opener about a program that’s probably already on your computer!

    • Understand complex functions in Excel
    • Demonstrate understanding of how to integrate Excel into other MS programs
    • Familiarize self with more advanced formulas

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Excel Series - Franklin

Join us for Excel classes at the Leon and Lassie Page Center in Franklin, Kentucky!

  • 4 hour course: Does your job require you to work with Microsoft Excel? This course provides the straightforward foundation you need to utilize a spreadsheet for business applications. Design concepts, databases, charts, and macros will be examined thoroughly along with the major built-in functions. Students will design several spreadsheets both in and out of class to solve specific business problems. 

    • Understand entry and use of the three data types, use of menus and use of commands
    • Practice cell addressing and manipulation
    • Demonstrate saving, creating and printing spreadsheets and graphs
  • 4 hour course: Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’re ready to move on to our Intermediate Excel course which will introduce you to charting features and database management in Microsoft Excel 2013. You will design worksheets that meet Excel criteria for database functions such as sorting and filtering. In addition, you will cover the following: database design criteria, subtotals, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. With Excel, you’ll learn to work smarter, not harder! (Upon request, course can be divided up into Intermediate Excel 1 and Intermediate Excel 2—both 4 hour courses.)

    • Learn how to link sheets and files together
    • Demonstrate how to use the conditional functions
    • Understand how to use essential list management
  • 4 hour course: See just how much Excel can do! In this course, you will work on creating action queries and macros, linking to and grouping worksheets to create a workspace in excel, using pivot tables and charts, integrating Excel into Word and PowerPoint and finally, working with goal seeking and more advanced formulas. You have many more possibilities with Excel than you think—taking this course will be a helpful eye-opener about a program that’s probably already on your computer!

    • Understand complex functions in Excel
    • Demonstrate understanding of how to integrate Excel into other MS programs
    • Familiarize self with more advanced formulas

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Excel Certificate Program

Would you like to offer Excel training targeted at the needs of your group?  Courses are designed to build competency with increasingly sophisticated features in a way that allows employees to apply them immediately and effectively in the workplace. The following are offered:

  • 4-hour course: Does your job require you to work with Microsoft Excel? This class sets the foundation for Excel. Participants will learn important features, such as how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar, how to use Excel’s Backstage view, and how to access the Excel Options window to make changes to the spreadsheet. Participants will learn the Excel window, the seven shapes of the mouse and what each one does in Excel.
    • Create a spreadsheet and do simple calculations
    • Learn how to use the top 5 functions: (Autosum, Average, Count, Maximum and Minimum)
    • Understand how to modify a spreadsheet by inserting rows and columns
    • Demonstrate how to Format the spreadsheet for appearance put it on the page before printing
    • Practice creating headers, footers and page breaks
  • 4-hour course: This course will introduce you to the rules of writing formulas in Excel and how to work with both relative and absolute formulas. You will also learn how to fix errors using the formula auditing feature as well as linking formulas in a spreadsheet in workbooks. With Excel, you’ll learn to work smarter, not harder!
    • Work with Excel functions, countif, sumif, and averageif
    • Understand how to bring an Excel chart into PowerPoint
    • Practice using Sparklines
    • Demonstrate how to protect cells and workbooks
    • Understand linking worksheets and linking workbooks
    • Learn more tips and tricks
  • 4-hour course: This course will introduce you to the Function Builder and teach you how to build your own! You’ll also design worksheets that meet Excel criteria for database functions such as sorting, filtering, and subtotals.
    • Work with Excel function, singleifs
    • Understand how to work with lists
    • Practice using sorts, filters, and subtotals
    • Demonstrate how to text to columns
    • Work with formatting using conditional and special formats
    • Understand concatenate function
  • 4-hour course: See just how much Excel can do! In this course, you will work on using pivot tables and charts, integrating Excel into PowerPoing and finally, working with Vlookups and Hlookups. You have many more possibilities with Excel than you think-- taking this course will be a helpful eye-opener about a program that's probably already on  your comupter!
    • Work with pivot tables and pivot charts
    • Understand how to import a pivot tabel into PowerPoint
    • Practice using dashboards
    • Demonstrate how to text to columns
    • Work with defining names
  • 4-hour course: Once you have learned some of Excel’s many features, it’s time to apply them! Excel 5 is a comprehensive problem-solving approach that incorporates Excel into real world applications. The case study approach helps you understand the functionality of Excel in today’s workforce. In a work environment, time is a scarce resource—by attending this class, you will not only learn better ways to use Excel, but you will also learn additional features and apply them in practical applications.
    • Understand one variable input table
    • Learn how to protect cells, sheets, and workbooks
    • Demonstrate goal seeking
    • Understand the underlying functionality of Excel to become more productive
    • Learn how to work with macros

See How to Register for the Excel Certificate Program

Computer Training

Offer these customizable courses to your group. They will learn tips, tricks, and ways to leverage common office technology to enhance operations and increase efficiency with the following course options:

  • Basic Access
  • Basic Excel
  • Intermediate Excel
  • Advanced Excel
  • Excel Applications
  • Introduction to MS Word
  • Introduction to PowerPoint
  • MS Office Overview


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Microsoft Office Applications

Some of the world’s most widely used software programs are part of the Microsoft Office Suite. Search the catalog for the application and version that you need or select a value bundle that includes multiple applications. Examples include: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and more.

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Microsoft Office Specialist 2019 Certification Training

This course prepares you for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) 2019 certification exams for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. You will build your expertise in these programs through hands-on exercises, in-depth course material, and supplemental video demonstrations. Learn how to efficiently use the Microsoft Office suite and take these skills with you to any workplace.

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