Excel Basics for Beginners

New to Microsoft Excel or need a quick refresher? Excel Basics for Beginners: A Quick Start Tutorial will help you become familiar with the Excel workspace and learn the basic skills needed to begin using a workbook with confidence.

Using a blank Excel workbook, this short tutorial explains essential Excel terminology and demonstrates how to navigate a worksheet, enter and edit information, perform simple calculations, correct mistakes, and save your work.

By the end of the tutorial, you will know how to:

• Open and navigate a blank Excel workbook
• Identify a workbook, worksheet, row, column, cell, and cell reference
• Select and move between cells
• Enter, edit, and delete information
• Create simple calculations
• Use cell references to add values entered in different cells
• Use Undo and Redo to correct mistakes
• Save your workbook

No previous Excel experience is required. This tutorial is ideal for first-time Excel users, individuals who need a quick refresher, and purchasers preparing to use AMACG’s Small Business or Nonprofit Financial Planning Workbooks.

This free tutorial focuses on the basics. Future IGNITE Learning tutorials will take a deeper dive into Excel and its features.