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Excel 2007 Essential Training

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if you want to excel at Excel then this is a must. easy to follow directions and you will be developing spreadsheets like a professional. really helps you to navigate the new menu and ribbon bars.

This [...] course is not for anyone like me who is an absolute beginner with spreadsheets and excel.

As a small business owner starting from scratch, I wanted to know how to use Excel for accounting purposes. I expected the course to start with a brief overview of what a spreadsheet is, a look at the interface, followed by starting my first spreadsheet from scratch with examples of the types of data that could be entered using the most common scenarios such as a simple a table of income and expenses. Instead, the course merely says spreadsheets are like tables in Word except you can do math on the numbers, followed by a jump right into the formatting of the data.

I know to many people who've used Excel, it may seem obvious to you how to enter data into the cells, but not to a complete newbie. The course jumps from the interface intro, to opening a sample spreadsheet and showing how the cells can be resized and fonts reformatted. That's fine, but how do I enter that data into the cells? An enormous amount of time is spent on formatting.

There should have been an entire chapter outlining how data is entered and grouped into the cells, before discussing how to format the data. To most people who use Excel, formatting is the last step, not the first.

I hate to admit it, because I find the instructors sometimes incoherent, but Total Training is a better series. Total Training has a more natural and expected flow starting from the beginning and building on new concepts as they become effective/required. Lately, the videos from [...] have been too quick in their jumps from concepts to concepts, with far too much backtracking and lack of forward explanation. eg, "drag this here, and I'll explain where you're dragging into a few chapters later"