MS Excel

[LordHaveMurci]

Wasn’t sure where to put this do settled for in here.

Does anybody know of a free, or very cheap way to learn Excel? Starting from fairly basic level so not too advanced to begin with.

[ndtman]

Loads of tutorials on YouTube.

[FunkyGibbon]

Microsoft have loads of tutorial videos here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-v...

[_Mja_]

Youtube videos? It's more the concept of what you can do with it that you need to understand before jumping in with formula. Formatting, saving etc is all very similar to other Microsoft products.

[Freakuk]

YouTube.... seriously, I've found plenty of answers on YouTube for Excel.

The inbuilt help version is also very good, with step by step guides.

[Zetec-S]

I started off about 15-20 years ago with very little knowledge about excel, but would now consider myself a fairly advanced user. All of it is self taught, if I couldn't figure something out then I would just google the problem, the internet is full of people who want to show off their excel skills.

What are you wanting to learn? Is it just a general improvement in your understanding, or do you need to know something for a specific use/job/project?

[LordHaveMurci]

Zetec-S said:

What are you wanting to learn? Is it just a general improvement in your understanding, or do you need to know something for a specific use/job/project?

Just general improvement of my very basic understanding at this point.

[Mr Pointy]

I've found this lady to produce very good Youtube tutorials - she has a large number of them posted: this is a playlist of the basic tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdlR1rBwkM&li...

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[FunkyGibbon]

Mr Pointy said:

I've found this lady to produce very good Youtube tutorials - she has a large number of them posted: this is a playlist of the basic tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdlR1rBwkM&li...

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Agree - very good tutorials.

[Keypad]

When I read a book such as the "Dummies..." series, I rapidly lose sight of just what I started out reading it for.
For a complete beginner, I'd get a short & simple guide, just for an overview. But just skim it.
Then decide on a project, fairly simple to begin with, e.g. Christmas card list.
That'll get you involved in the basic stuff - Saving, Saving As..., naming convention(s), sorting, formatting, column & row heights / sizes, cut & paste.
And it'll give plenty of opportunity to "explore" Excels' printing options.

That'll give you as sense of actually achieving something !

Then you can extend, e.g. by adding a column for how much you are willing to pay for presents, which gives a lead into formulae, e.g. adding up columns of numbers.