Contact:

When

Where

ASU - Education Building 
330 University Loop Circle
Jonesboro, AR 72401 

 
Driving Directions 

Parking
Approaching Arkansas State University from Stadium, turn right or left onto Johnson Avenue, turn left at the second light onto Caraway Road.  Turn right into the parking garage, where visitor parking is available.  Visitor parking marked with a "V".

Parking Garage Map

Instructor

Cindy Bode
Cindy Bode provides the computer support for the College of Education at Arkansas State University. Originally from the Kansas City area, she received a BA in Economics from Kansas State University in 1983. She is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor and was an instructor at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center in Overland Park and adjunct faculty at Longview Community College in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She enjoys reading, helping her husband (and their four-year-old) work on their racecar and trying to not kill her plants.

Beginning Microsoft Excel

Students will learn how to use the Help system and navigate worksheets and workbooks. Then they will enter and edit text, values, formulas, and pictures, and they will save workbooks in various formats. Students will also move and copy data, learn about absolute and relative references, and work with ranges, rows, and columns. This course also covers simple functions, basic formatting techniques, and printing. Finally, students will create and modify charts, and learn how to manage large workbooks.

Table Of Contents:
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: Spreadsheet terminology
Topic B: The Excel environment
Topic C: Getting help
Topic D: Navigating a worksheet

Unit 2: Entering and editing data
Topic A: Entering and editing text and values
Topic B: Entering and editing formulas
Topic C: Working with pictures
Topic D: Saving and updating workbooks

Unit 3: Modifying a worksheet
Topic A: Moving and copying data
Topic B: Moving and copying formulas
Topic C: Absolute and relative references
Topic D: Inserting and deleting ranges, rows, and columns

Unit 4: Using functions 
Topic A: Entering functions
Topic B: AutoSum
Topic C: Other common functions

Unit 5: Formatting 
Topic A: Text formatting 
Topic B: Row and column formatting 
Topic C: Number formatting 
Topic D: Conditional formatting
Topic E: Additional formatting options 

Unit 6: Printing
Topic A: Preparing to print
Topic B: Page Setup options
Topic C: Printing worksheets

Unit 7: Charts 
Topic A: Chart basics
Topic B: Formatting charts

Unit 8: Managing large workbooks
Topic A: Viewing large worksheets
Topic B: Printing large worksheets
Topic C: Working with multiple worksheets 


Unit 9: Graphics and screenshots
Topic A: Conditional formatting with graphics
Topic B: SmartArt graphics
Topic C: Screenshots