Welcome!
Posted: Jun. 18
Hi Everyone, and welcome to Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007.
If you took the Introduction course, you learned how to get around the screen and do some fairly simple tasks, and that was about it.
Now, we’re going to build on the knowledge you have and kick it up a notch or 10, because you’re going to learn how to really put Excel to work for you.
There are four lessons in this course. They’re all available right now, but I urge you not to push yourself through them too quickly. All these lessons are rich with information, and if you really expect to put Excel to productive use, you’re going to need it all.
So please, take your time with this course. The lessons will remain available through the end of next year, so you’ll have plenty of time. I hope you’ll make use of it.
The other thing I hope you’ll make use of is this message board. I’ll check in daily and am available to answer questions or help you through any of this material that’s giving you a hard time. And believe me, if you’re having trouble with something, there are others here who are, too, and they’ll be really grateful that you asked the question so they wouldn’t have to.
So if you have a question, please ask, and don’t worry about whether you think you should know it already. I’ve said it many times before and I’ll keep on saying it: When you’re learning software like Excel, there’s just no such thing as a dumb question, except the one you don’t ask.
Before we actually get into the lessons, there’s one more thing I need to tell you about a problem that comes up regularly in these courses. The typeface that most browsers display the lessons in can make it hard to distinguish the difference between the numeral one -- 1 -- and the upper-case letter I. Usually that's no problem because you can tell which one is which from the context. It's hard to see "Idaho" and think it's "One-daho," for example.
But we're going to be talking a lot about cell references in this course. Cell references always consist of a column reference which is a letter, and a row reference which is a number. So it's perfectly possible to see a reference for a cell in column I (the one between columns H and J) and row 5 which will look like "Go to cell I5," and wonder where cell fifteen is.
So it will help if you remember, when you run into something like that, that a cell reference is always a combination of a letter and a number.
Now, onward. Remember, take your time, try everything out, and ask when there’s something giving you trouble.
Enjoy the course and learn a lot. I look forward to meeting you all here, so feel free to stop in and say "Hi," by replying to this post.
Thank you, one and all!
Don
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