Excel 2010 training presentation create your first spreadsheet (revised)

Microsoft
®
Excel
®
2010 Training
Get to know Excel 2010:
Create your first spreadsheet

Course contents
• Overview: All about the basics
• Lesson: Includes seven instructional movies
• Suggested practice tasks
• Test
• Quick Reference
Get to know Excel 2010: Create your first spreadsheet

Overview: All about the basics
Are you new to Excel? If so, this course
will introduce you to the basics, starting
with how to create a spreadsheet and
do basic math in Excel.
You’ll also learn how to add and delete
columns and rows; keep column titles in
sight as you scroll; and prepare a
spreadsheet for printing.

Course goals
• Create a new spreadsheet.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in a
spreadsheet; enter and format column titles.
• Let Excel fill in some information for you.
• Add or delete columns, rows, and spreadsheets.
• Keep column titles in sight as you scroll down a
spreadsheet.
• Select some printing options.

Meet the Excel spreadsheet
Point to the video to display the video controls. Drag or click along the
progress bar to move forward or backward.

Do basic math in Excel

Create column titles (be kind to your readers)
.

Let Excel type for you (sometimes)

Get more (or less) columns, rows, spreadsheets

Keep column titles in sight as you scroll
.

Prepare to print

Suggestions for practice
1. Type some simple formulas to add, subtract, multiply,
and divide. Then add numbers by using AutoSum, try a
math shortcut, and get an average.
2. Copy a formula.
3. Create titles and adjust column width.
4. Format titles.
5. Change a column’s width manually; center the titles.
6. Fill in some text, try AutoComplete, and see what to do
if Excel guesses incorrectly.

Suggestions for practice, cont.
7. Let Excel fill in a series for you; try a difference series.
8. Add a new column and row; delete a new column and
row.
9. Add and delete new spreadsheets; rename a
spreadsheet.
10. Freeze and unfreeze column titles.
Online practice (requires Excel 2010)

Test question 1
To do math in Excel, start by typing which of the
following? (Pick one answer.)
1. Parentheses
2. Numbers
3. An equal sign.

Test question 1
Whether you do the typing, or let Equal create formulas for
you, math always begins with an equal sign.
To do math in Excel, start by typing which of the
following?
Answer:
3. An equal sign.

Test question 2
To add a new column, click a cell in the column to the left
of where you want the new column. (Pick one answer.)
1. True.
2. False.

Test question 2
To add a new column, click a cell in the column to the left
of where you want the new column.
Answer:
2. False.

Test question 3
To add a new row, click a cell in the row immediately
below where you want the new row. (Pick one answer.)
1. True.
2. False.

Test question 3
You’re in the right row. Then on the Home tab, in the Cells
group, click the arrow under Insert, and click Insert Sheet
Rows.
To add a new row, click a cell in the row immediately
below where you want the new row.
Answer:
1. True.

Test question 4
To delete a column or a row, you click in the column or
row you want to delete. Then what? (Pick one answer.)
1. Press the Delete button.
2. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click the Format
button.
3. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click the Delete
button.

Test question 4
Then click Delete Sheet Columns, or Delete Sheet Rows.
To delete a column or a row, you click in the column or
row you want to delete. Then what?
Answer:
3. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click the Delete
button.

Test question 5
To print a spreadsheet, what do you do first? (Pick one
answer.)
1. Click the File tab.
2. Right-click in a cell.
3. Click the Home tab.

Test question 5
Then click Print on the left side of the window. You can set
the printing options, see how your spreadsheet will look in
Print Preview, and then click the Print button when you’re
ready.
To print a spreadsheet, what do you do first?
Answer:
1. Click the File tab.

Test question 6
You want to type the days of the week. To get Excel to
type the list for you, type the first day and move the
cursor to the lower-right corner of the cell. Then what?
(Pick one answer.)
1. Wait until the cursor turns into a white plus sign.
2. Right-click the lower-right cell corner.
3. Wait until the cursor turns into a black plus sign.

Test question 6
Then click and drag to fill in the list. Release the mouse
button when you finish.
You want to type the days of the week. To get Excel to type the list for you, type
the first day and move the cursor to the lower-right corner of the cell. Then what?
Answer:
3. Wait until the cursor turns into a black plus sign.

Quick Reference Card
For a summary of the tasks covered in this course, view the
Quick Reference Card.

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