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The distance learning Excel 2003 course is the perfect home study course to ensure that you succeed in this exciting field. Our uniquely flexible Excel 2003 home learning course has no time limits. You can start your home learning course whenever you like and there are no deadlines to meet, so you can adapt your distance education course to meet your needs, all from the comfort of your own home.

Once you have registered on the distance education Excel 2003 course you will be assigned a personal tutor who specialises in their field of study. Your dedicated personal tutor is always on hand to answer any query you may have, no matter how big or small, and you will also have access to a dedicated course advisor who offers guidance and advice.

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Excel 2003 Course

A Distance Learning Course of 1 Lesson
Course Description
This series is designed for beginning and intermediate Excel users. This series teaches learners about creating and editing spreadsheets, what's new in the 2003 version, the Excel interface, navigating, editing, and working with text, values, and formulas, printing, formatting, creating charts and databases, and using images and hypertext in a spreadsheet.
Course Syllabus
GETTING STARTED

Provides an overview of the use of the Excel 2003 interface and new product features.
  • What is Excel
  • Cells and worksheets
  • Opening Excel
  • Toolbars
  • The Formula bar and worksheet window
  • The Status bar, task panes, and scrolling
  • Moving in the worksheet
  • Using menus
  • Shortcut menus and dialog boxes
  • Getting help
  • Online help and exiting Excel

CREATING A SPREADSHEET

Shows you how to input data to an Excel spreadsheet.
  • Data entry
  • Text and values
  • Fixed decimal places
  • Dates and formulas
  • Complex formulas
  • Editing cells
  • Speech recognition
  • Dictation and voice command
  • Handwriting and AutoComplete
  • Using AutoFill
  • Special symbols and shortcuts
  • Using functions
  • Using AutoSum
  • Saving your worksheet

FORMATTING DATA

Provides information about formatting the cells and tables of your Excel worksheets.
  • Selecting cells
  • Using AutoFormat
  • Moving toolbars
  • Using the Format Cells dialog box
  • Dates and special numbers
  • Calibrating columns
  • Changing fonts
  • Altering the alignment
  • Altering cell appearances
  • Patterns and format painter

EDITING AND PRINTING WORKSHEETS

Provides the user with information on editing and printing worksheets in Excel 2003.
  • Opening workbooks
  • Finding files
  • Using the Search task pane
  • Undo and redo
  • Editing with drag and drop
  • Copying formulas
  • Cut, copy, and paste
  • Deleting and inserting cells
  • Correcting errors
  • Print preview
  • Selecting print options
  • Page setup
  • Headers and footers
  • Setting sheet options
  • Controlling page breaks and formulas

MANAGING WORKSHEETS

Shows users how to view and manage information in a worksheet.
  • Viewing worksheets
  • Headings
  • Comments
  • Assigning names
  • Find and replace
  • Researching and calculating
  • Protecting your work
  • Maintaining multiple worksheets
  • Editing multiple worksheets
  • Naming and arranging sheets
  • Manipulating worksheet windows
  • Comparing and copying worksheets
  • Summary worksheets

CHARTS AND DATABASES

Teaches the user how to add charts and graphics to worksheets, and how to create and manage databases using Excel 2003.
  • Using the Chart Wizard
  • Editing charts
  • Changing the chart options
  • Adding images
  • WordArt and organizational charts
  • Grouping and hiding images
  • Creating a database
  • Adding e-mail and Web addresses
  • Viewing and finding records
  • Sorting records
  • Using AutoFilter
  • Custom AutoFilters

HYPERTEXT AND TIPS

Provides information about the Web functions available in Excel.
  • Adding hyperlinks to a workbook
  • Following hyperlinks
  • Editing hyperlinks
  • Saving a static Web page
  • Interactive Web pages
  • Interactive databases and charts
  • Editing Web pages
  • Saving and sending worksheets
  • Top ten features
  • Top ten beginner basics
  • Ten commandments of Excel 2003
Qualifications

Printable Transcript

On completion of this course you may print a transcript off as evidence of your progression throughout the course.

Study Options

This course is an online course. With online study you have access to your entire course from the start of your studies. You can access your course materials, and submit all of your question papers to your personal tutor, online from anywhere in the World using your unique student account.

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Studying Online. If you would like to study online we cannot accept payment for course fees in instalments, instead course fees must be paid in full at the point of enrolment. The reason for this is due to the fact that when you study online you have access to all of your course materials from the outset.

 

 

 

Requirements for Entry

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Study Hours

This is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 40 hrs.

Additional Information
This course is different to other courses hosted on Elearnuk. The course is supplied by Stonebridge Associated Colleges in conjunction with Stonebridge IT School.

Once you have enrolled and paid for your course you will receive an email within 24-72 hours. The email will contain your username and password to login to your course.
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