Learn how to use Microsoft Excel to manage data and boost office productivity in this free online spreadsheet course.

Today’s explosion of data and statistics creates a need for businesses and nonprofit organisations to track, manage, analyse and interpret information efficiently and effectively. To handle this, you need a flexible tool that can be used for each context without requiring you to recreate the data over and over again. Fortunately, Microsoft has created Excel, a powerful spreadsheet program you can use to manage data. Excel allows you to display calculations and analyses when necessary. It can also help you create documents that are clear and easy to understand.

This step-by-step, practical MS Excel tutorial from Crafty E-Learning provides you with the training required to master the basics of using spreadsheets. We explain how to create easy-to-understand documents, which can be used to effectively visualise, analyse and present data. Using Excel skillfully can help you to make more informed decisions by drawing on information when needed.

The 26 tutorial exercises included in the course allow you to practise your newfound skills as you master the basics of MS Excel. We explain how to navigate its interface and use basic menus such as ‘File’, ‘Home’, ‘Insert’, ‘Layout’, ‘Formulas’, ‘Data’, ‘Review’ and ‘View’. We also show you how to enter and manipulate data, use Excel templates, make calculations and more. Most modern jobs require some expertise in spreadsheets so sign up for this MS Excel tutorial to learn how to use this program to meet all your data management needs.