Excel Basics

A CCSO Student Free Computer Course

This session of Excel Basics has been designed to assist you in becoming familiar with the Excel spreadsheet software. You will learn the basics of working with the Excel spreadsheet, particularly how to enter data and perform simple calculations as well as movement within the spreadsheet.
Computing and Communications Services Office
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801

All comments, suggestions, and inquiries concerning this instructional material, this course, or any other courses that Computing and Communications Services Office offers may be directed to CCSO's User Training and Education Manager:

Lynnell Lacy
1120 Digital Computer Lab (DCL), MC-256
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-1257

Excel is a "spreadsheet application" which means that it is designed to help the user manipulate numerical data (such as budgets, research data analysis, etc.). Excel is designed to quickly and accurately perform complex and tedious calculations. Excel can help automate the process of calculating your data as well as lay it out in a more appealing and meaningful way.

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