What's the easiest way to learn how to use Excel?

Answer 1

get on excel and use it for imaginary lists and use help to guide you or buy a book on it.

Answer 2

The easiest way to learn how to use Microsoft Excel is to buy the software, follow the directions, and have the most absolute fun in your life.

Answer 3

What I do when I want to teach myself to use new software is type "[program name] + Tutorial" into the search box in any search engine and try out the links. There are some really good interactive tutorials out there. You might want to try adding "interactive" as a search term. Other than that there are classes you can take. Books you can find at the library or bookstore or Ebay/Amazon are very informative as well.

Hmm..., dosed off for a couple minutes there lol. If I had anything else to add I forgot what it was sorry, I need to get to bed now good luck :)

Answer 4

...use the online help, which features when you click on
"type a question for help".. and most of all do a google search on excel or any topic your having trouble with and it will come up with a ride range of useful website for you to look at. other wise go to the local library and borrow books which can help you to =)
best of luck in excel

Answer 5

Assuming all people learn the same way, of course... right?

I would have to say, spend more time learning and less time asking dumb questions with no right answers.

Hey, but that's me :)

Answer 6

Get Office For Dumbies lol it actually works plus look on the net. Or buy the Program Advantage DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications.... TEACHES YOU EVERYTHING IN MICROSOFT OFFICE)

Answer 7

study an A level in Information Technology, all i learnt was how to use Excel.

Answer 8

Excel has a lot of powefull tools -that a lot of people under utilise.

Start with the basics and work your way up - lot of stuff is in the help menu (although sometimes you have to know what your looking for in the first place though). look up formulas and stuff in the help menu - these are quite usefull for adding up columns, finding averages and stuff. for example to add up contents of cells a1 and b1, click on any cell and type in the following "=a1+b1"

lot of advanced formulas such as vlookup and stuff have step by step instructions of how to use them (vlookup allows you to lookup values in a table and return information for that row - i.e if you have a table with dates as the first column, and numbers in the next column you can look up a specific date, and return the number in the next column).

macros are quite good in excel as well - you can record your actions, and make them into a macro button -so next time you just have to click run macro to do the same thing (if you click the reletive reference button that comes up when you start to record a macro allows you to record relevent to where you are -i.e move up 2, change colour of cells etc -if you press this again will go to absolute and base on the actual cells you are in -i.e such as b1)

excel also uses vba (visual basic within applications) which is basically a cut down version of visual basic - but allows you to do other powerfull things (especially when used in conjunction with macros as can record a macro then edit it in vba)

general things like formatting are quite easy to do as well, if you right click your mouse and click cell properties - can do all sorts of stuff like putting boxes round stuff, format text, etc.

lot of general stuff like holding down ctrl and click various cells to select specific cells, or holding down shift key and clicking with mouse to select all cells are pretty generic across all office packages (such as word and such)

hope this helps and not too heavy. lot of other stuff could tell you but dont want to go too deep before you have played about with some of the basics

Answer 9

They sell a CD for teaching the offices and it's not expensive, it teaches with sound very well!

Answer 10

It's easy anyway. Get a book from the library and go to work on it.