In Microsoft Office Excel Level 1, you created, edited, formatted, and printed basic spreadsheets. You now have a need to streamline repetitive tasks and display spreadsheet data in more visually effective ways. In this course, you will use Microsoft® Excel to streamline and enhance your spreadsheets with templates, charts, graphics, and formulas.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• create and apply templates.
• create and modify charts.
• work with graphic objects.
• calculate with advanced formulas.
• sort and filter data.
• use Excel with the Web.

Course Objective: You will apply visual elements and advanced formulas to a worksheet to display data in various formats.

Target Student: The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel, Excel 2000, Excel XP or Excel 2003 on the Web. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel or Module 2 and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.

Certification: This course is one of a series of Knowledge Transfer courses that addresses Microsoft Office Specialist (Office Specialist) skill sets. The Office Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsofts business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Office Specialist certification. To learn more about the Microsoft Office Specialist Program visit our certifications section.

To ensure your success, we recommend that you have experience with creating, editing, formatting, saving, and printing basic spreadsheets in Microsoft® Excel. Students can obtain this level of skill by taking the following course:

• Microsoft Excel: Level 1

In addition, Web browsing experience is strongly recommended.