Excel Without Maths

Do you find Excel daunting and worry about mathematical formulas that it often involves? This is the course for you!

In this one-day Excel course, you will explore several Excel features that will help make Excel better and more efficient for you — all without having to use formulas.

 

Course Overview

This course is ideal if numbers aren’t your strong suit. You’ll learn to use Excel confidently for lists, charts, formatting and layout — with no scary formulas in sight. This course is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability.

Note: Some features are not available in 2010 and 2013 versions.

Why take this course?

  • Learn how to use Excel without needing to understand formulas or maths
  • Use Excel confidently for organising information and presenting it clearly
  • Create and format lists, charts and tables with ease
  • Perfect for admin, support and creative roles
  • Friendly and practical approach for those who feel nervous about Excel

Who is this course for?

Designed for people who need to use Excel but don’t work with numbers or formulas. Ideal if you want to manage data or lists, create visuals or tidy up spreadsheets — no maths required.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online | Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • How to save time analysing your data with Charts, Pivot Tables and Subtotals, and feel in control
  • Ways to tidy up spreadsheets using Data Validation
  • Loads of exciting tips that will help you become more productive at work

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Tidy data to enable accuracy

  • Copy, paste and move data from one worksheet or website
  • Paste Options: Transpose data to appear vertically or horizontally
  • Insert and delete rows or columns in your worksheet
  • Use Freeze pane to keep a portion visible while you scroll
  • Remove Duplicate data from a sheet
  • Use Data Validation to limit type or size of data entered in a cell
  • Use Flash Fill to automatically fill in values and combine or tidy a long list
  • Use TEXTJOIN to concatenate a list
  • Use Range Names for selecting and moving around
  • Control the layout of your sheets when printing

Using multiple data without maths

  • Work on more than one worksheet and group them to make changes simultaneously
  • Use Consolidate feature to summarise multiple sheets of data
  • Sort large data into order and filter to show only the data you need

Visualise your data

  • Use Conditional Formatting to automatically change the look of cells based on its value
  • Create the best chart type for your data to make them stand out and easy to understand
  • Create sparklines to show trends and pattern

Make your data make an impact (if there's time)

  • Quickly convert a range of cells to a table, with its own style
  • Use Subtotal to create mini summaries
  • Create a Pivot Table to summarise large sets of data easily

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Because Happiness Works

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Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

Can I take the course with an old version of the software? How do I ask about this?

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.