Microsoft Excel Essentials

Catalog description

A project based course which focuses on the use of Microsoft Excel to communicate in a professional setting. This course offers an in-depth study of Excel software to expose students to practical examples of the computer as a useful tool to create spreadsheets suitable for coursework, professional purposes, and personal use. Emphasis is placed on helping students discover the underlying functionality of Excel so they can become more productive. This course offers labs using Power Pivot, an Excel add-in to perform a powerful data analysis and create sophisticated data models. This is a course that uses an exercise-oriented approach that allows learning by doing.