Microsoft Excel Beginners
Level 1 | Target Audience: Beginner | 7 hours
Microsoft Excel Beginners class will teach you how to be efficient using Excel including the best ways to use simple formulas and functions, format a workbook, and prepare for print. Microsoft Excel is the industry leader in business productivity tools as part of the Microsoft Office Suite. Excel has unlimited capabilities to calculate, manipulate, and analyze data of any kind. In Excel Beginners training, you will start from the ground up and learn the right ways to work with spreadsheets.
Microsoft Excel Beginners Classes
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Start DateFeb05
Microsoft Excel Beginners (Level 1)
Online2 sessions, Mon/Wed 9:00am - 12:30pm MTExcel classes for beginners – learn a required skill for any career pathSessions
Session 1
Mon, Feb 05 09:00 am MST - Mon, Feb 05 12:30 pm MSTOnlineSession 2
Wed, Feb 07 09:00 am MST - Wed, Feb 07 12:30 pm MSTOnline- $349.00 excl.
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Overview
Microsoft Excel skills are considered essential by most employers. Excel provides unlimited ways for you to analyze and organize your data so that you can present and understand like never before. In this Excel basic class, you will learn how to create simple spreadsheets and format your documents.
If you are actively job seeking and missing Excel skills on your resume, this class is a great start towards getting you the skills you need to be competitive in the job market.
As you work through the sessions of Microsoft Excel Beginners, each class will be a hands-on and intensive workshop, designed to help make difficult topics easier to understand. Your instructor, a Microsoft expert, will work with you closely to make sure that you avoid common mistakes in Excel and apply best practices when possible.
Class Objectives
Upon successful completion of Microsoft Excel Beginners class, students will be able to:
- Create a basic worksheet by using Microsoft Excel
- Perform calculations in an Excel worksheet
- Understand absolute vs relative references in a formula
- Modify an Excel worksheet
- Modify the appearance of data within a worksheet
- Manage Excel workbooks
- Print the content of an Excel worksheet
- Have you already completed our excel class for beginners? Try our Excel Intermediate Training.
Pre-requisites
- Basic digital literacy including file management is required.
- It is required you install the latest Microsoft Office software before starting class.
Talk to a student advisor to ensure you have the right pre-requisites for each class or program.
Alumni Spotlight
What a productive class. Valuable knowledge taught in an engaging, easy to follow way. Fast or slow, what made it great was that whatever your pace, your skills were usable immediately. I always left with some new skill to improve my work, some alternate method to try, something tangible and demonstrable to show for the time.
Inside Our Curriculum

Focus on Real-World Skills
Each of our stand-alone classes is designed to teach how to improve your skills in a real-world setting. DWC's experiential learning style ensures you will be guided by an expert instructor will performing all of the tasks to help you learn.
The challenges you face in class will mimic what you will need to land a job and improve your daily productivity.

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Support & Mentoring
All Microsoft Excel classes are offered in an accelerated workshop format.
Your instructor will provide hands-on, experiential style classroom learning for you to learn best practices of applying tech skills in the real-world.
Each class may be eligible credit towards a certification program, which includes career counseling and portfolio projects.
Flexible scheduling options allow you to choose what works best for your time.
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Pay nothing until you’re hired with the Ignite ISA plan. Payment plans and financial aid options available.

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FAQs
When can I start?
Classes are offered on a rolling enrollment basis throughout the year, typically every 8-12 weeks.
Who teaches these classes?
All classes are taught by industry professionals with 10+ years experience in their field. Check the specific class offering to learn more about the assigned instructor for each class.
You may also learn more about our team here.
What format are these classes?
Stand-alone classes at DWC are focused skills workshops that teach in a specific area of a high demand career field.
Often described as a "short course" format, these accelerated workshops can be attended as stand-alone or can be taken as part of a larger certificate program.
Certificate programs offer more comprehensive training to help lead you to empoyment, support & mentoring, portfolio building, and career coaching.
To find out more about DWC's style of training, talk to a student advisor today.
What if the listed schedule doesn't work for me?
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What's included?
Stand-Alone Classes
Every stand-alone class at DWC includes support and mentoring throughout.
Stand-alone classes within your program also include:
- Professional Textbook(s) or Reference Packet(s)
- Lesson files
- One year for a free re-take (for attended students of public classes only)
- 30 days of technical support
- Certificate of Completion
Certificate Programs & Bootcamps
Each Certificate Program & Bootcamp is comprised of several stand-alone classes, plus additional training specific to your career field, portfolio building with a comprehensive Capstone Project, and career coaching workshops.
Support and mentoring a huge part of all of our full length programs.
Talk to a student advisor to learn more about specific details on each class or program.
What career services do you offer?
For full length programs, support and mentoring is included and you will be eligible to work one-on-one with a career counselor.
Workshops for job search and resume writing are included in the cost of your program. Our expert career advisors will help you prepare for the next steps of your career path. Your success is our success.
Talk to a student advisor to discuss career coaching options today.
Payment & financial aid options
DWC offers several flexible financial aid options to help you finance your education. None of our financial aid tools will require a federal student loan or add severe interest penalties.
Popular financial aid tools include payment plans and Ignite Income Share Agreement.
If you are interested in scholarship opportunities, you must first speak with a student advisor and discsuss eligibility requirements.
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Upcoming Microsoft Excel Classes
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Start DateFeb05
Microsoft Excel Beginners (Level 1)
Online2 sessions, Mon/Wed 9:00am - 12:30pm MTExcel classes for beginners – learn a required skill for any career pathSessions
Session 1
Mon, Feb 05 09:00 am MST - Mon, Feb 05 12:30 pm MSTOnlineSession 2
Wed, Feb 07 09:00 am MST - Wed, Feb 07 12:30 pm MSTOnline- $349.00 excl.