COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course offers an introduction to Microsoft Excel 2000.  Microsoft Excel 2000 gives you the opportunity to learn and strengthen skills as you gather data, create worksheets, analyze and chart the results, and integrate your findings into reports and assignments.

This course shows you how Excel 2000’s features help you to work better and teach better. The following pages offer self-guided lessons to make it easy for you to use Excel 2000 as management tool. Illustrations and steps written in plain language help you to:

**Gather and enter data.

**Format data.

**Work with numbers, formulas, and functions.

**Use proofing tools.

**Emphasize your point with charts.

**Put it all together.

HOW TO TAKE THIS COURSE

It is recommended that you begin with the 1st lesson (Overview), and go through each lesson in order as listed (ending with Putting It Together).

ADVISORIES AND NOTICES

This website is not a credit or certificate/degree granting program. This content is freely available as an educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners.

**No instructor or moderator is present.

**This course was created by Microsoft and is part of Microsoft In Education.

**Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Click here to purchase Microsoft Office.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Before you begin the activities in this course, make sure that Microsoft Excel 2000 has been installed on your computer and is operating correctly.

CONVENTIONS

The procedures given in this book use the following conventions:

• “Click” means to use the mouse to point to an area on the screen and press the left (primary) mouse button, unless the right (secondary) mouse button is specified.

• Commands are in bold type. For example, “click Next“ means to place the cursor over the “Next“ button and click.

• Information you are to type is in italics.

• Some activities use shortcut keys, which are keystroke combinations that help you use the software more productively. The CTRL (for control) and the TAB keys are examples of key names commonly used in shortcut keys. When the directions specify CTRL+N, hold down the CTRL key, and then press the N key.