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Course overview

The course focuses on helping delegates create, navigate and use key functions across worksheets and workbooks.

Participants learn how Excel is structured, how information is organised, and how to complete everyday tasks efficiently and accurately.

This course is designed for complete beginners or anyone who needs a clear, structured introduction to using Excel.

It’s particularly useful for individuals who want to understand the basics of navigating, creating and managing worksheets and workbooks confidently.

The course duration is 3 hours.

Participants will gain:

  • Increased confidence when working with worksheets and workbooks

  • A recording of the workshop, available for three months

  • A quick reference card summarising key concepts

  • One month’s free access to our training partner’s online learning library, including 53 courses, 34 tests and 5 games

  • The opportunity to practise new skills in a supportive online environment


The course covers:

Working with Worksheets

  • Navigating a worksheet

  • Inserting and deleting worksheets

  • Naming and colouring worksheets

  • Copying and moving worksheets

  • Selecting multiple sheets

  • Formatting across worksheets

  • Linking cells within a worksheet

  • Performing calculations across worksheets

Work with Workbooks

  • Linking across workbooks

  • 3D formulas

  • Performing calculations across workbooks

  • Taking single worksheets out into a new workbook


Can I customise this course?

Absolutely! We are able to tailor your course by adapted the standard materials, for example to include your own terminology, branding or work based examples. You can incorporate real life data and case studies to make the course more relevant and transferable, and benefit from a confidential environment where issues and specific challenges can be discussed in detail.

We are also able to design something just for you. Our bespoke offering aligns learning expertise to your specific organisational needs. This could be anything from adding to existing content to designing completely new experiences. Our partners have the capability and experience to deliver even the most challenging learning projects in-house. Robust systems, academic rigour and wide-ranging partnerships mean that you can rely on our providers to deliver a complete solution.

Please note that customisation of our courses is at an additional cost.

Why choose Reed Learning?

We aim to simplify employee learning without compromising on service. When you work with us, we’ll manage the training for you – all your employees have to do is show up! We will also provide you with downloadable course materials and resources you can use time and time again or create a ‘train-the-trainer’ course so your internal team can deliver our training in the future.

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Ready to train your team?


Either arrange a call or speak to one of our specialist learning advisers on 020 7932 2760 to discuss the options available to your business.

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