How do I teach myself Excel?

[rudeguy]

Is there a good walkthrough? I learn better from watching and trying than reading.


Thanks!

 

[olds]

Youtube?

 

[ViviTheMage]

It's just an advanced calculator.

 

[lothar]

Video Professor.

 

[Azraele]

Play around with it. Get the basics down when dealing with cells, etc, and then check out the info available on formulas and such.

What exactly do you want to do with it?

 

[rcpratt]

Trial and error, the help function in Excel, and google.

 

[Beev]

What exactly do you want to do with it?

This. It isn't a very difficult program, but it has some advanced features that can be used for cool things.

 

[DesiPower]

necessity is the mother of learnvention, had a math and comp background though...

 

[rasczak]

Youtube?

surprisingly enough, you can find some pretty good tutorials on youtube.

 

[keird]

I still think the VLOOKUP function is pretty neat.

 

[Train]

Just start using it for everyday tasks

Once I decided I was going to read my electric, gas, and water meters daily, and put the data into an excel sheet. Then play around with creating charts from that data.

 

[Juddog]

F1.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Self taught with Lotus123 going back to 1990, migrated to Excel. Necessity is the mother of motivation when it comes to learning IMO.

But yes, youtube is a good place to start.

 

[amdhunter]

Best use of Excel ever - http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/

 

[BoomerD]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/FX100646951033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102189871033.aspx

 

[Linflas]

I love Excel, it is the Swiss Army Knife of the Office Suite. I've pretty much learned what I know about it by using it and searching through the Help/web to figure out how to do things that aren't obvious.

 

[biggestmuff]

 

[rudeguy]

Play around with it. Get the basics down when dealing with cells, etc, and then check out the info available on formulas and such.

What exactly do you want to do with it?

I'd like to move up the ranks at work and Excel is used heavily. I have never used it much and have zero idea on how it works.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I still think the VLOOKUP function is pretty neat.

:thumbsup: One of my favorite functions!

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/279.html

 

[spidey07]

There should be some classes at your local community college as well.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Is there a good walkthrough? I learn better from watching and trying than reading.


Thanks!

How can you teach yourself Excel? If, as a teacher of Excel, you were capable in the first place then why would you need to be taught in the very first place?

 

[Azraele]

I'd like to move up the ranks at work and Excel is used heavily. I have never used it much and have zero idea on how it works.

It really depends on what they use it for. Where I used to work (currently laid off again), they used it to keep track of orders received and shipped, facility needs, and inventories. The inventory sheets were way more interactive and formula heavy than the shipped/received sheets. Try playing around with the program and see if any specific questions pop in your head. There are so many ways to use it, it's hard to make broad generalizations.

 

[mpo]

This is the best Excel book I have used:
F1 Get the Most Out of Excel Functions and Formulas

It has a CD with spreadsheets with all of the examples. It has helped with everything from the mundane to complicated formulas.

 

[BoomerD]

And, since the OP is who he is...

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/computers-software/ms-office/excel.html