Learn Microsoft Excel At Microsoft Online

Microsoft Online provides an excellent set on online training lessons for the Microsoft Office products. If you have never used Excel before, you can learn the basics that you will need for most of your college science classes by completing just a few of the many lessons offered. Use the following links to get started.

• Training page for Excel. This site includes over 30 lessons on a variety of topics. About a half dozen of the lessons will provide enough information for most college science majors to use Excel competently.
  • If you have never used Excel:
    • Get to know Excel: Enter formulas.
  • Using built-in functions (such as mean, median, standard deviation:
    • Find functions and enter arguments.
    • Excel statistical functions.
  • To learn how to generate charts and graphs
    • Charts I: How to create a chart.
    • Charts II and Charts III. You may wish to refer to these, but you can skip them and go to Charts IV.
    • Charts IV: Charts for the scientist.
  • To learn how to import data into Excel
    • Import data: Import text files into Excel.
• MS Office Online Training. Home page for training for various MS Office products

The links on this page were entered May 2005.