Most offices use Microsoft Excel for anything from tracking events to rosters to project planning. Considering the pervasiveness of Excel on campus, along with a campus initiative to be more efficient, it may be time to expand your Excel skills.
Looking for a professional development opportunity? Want to improve your Excel skills? Carleton licenses a training web site called “Lynda.com”, which puts thousands of recorded training videos right at your fingertips.
If you’re looking for a good introduction to Excel to polish up your basic skills, consider this video. It gives a good overview of many basic Excel features. It’s approximately 6 hours in length and done in Excel 2010, and generalizable to any version of Excel.
If you know the basics and want to extend your Excel skills even further, this video playlist provides advanced Excel training, with videos in the following five subject areas:
- Essentials
- Charts
- Pivot tables
- Formulas and functions
- Shortcuts