Welcome to Excelling with Excel 2007

Course Outline

This class is offered by West Valley Community College.
For registration information contact Admissions at West Valley Community College 408-741-2001 or register online. After you have enrolled, e-mail me.

This class is conducted entirely online. The class will be open for you to begin on the first day of school.

What will you learn in this class?
At the end of the class you will be so-o-o-o-o-o good at Excel.
You will do many things. You will start with the basics of Excel, move through the basics, do charts, play with a database and then explore the more advanced features of Excel.

You will have projects with each of the lessons. These projects will demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of what you have learned. You will email me, after you have explored a web lesson, for the assignment that goes with that lesson. When you complete the assignment, email it to me and I will check it and offer comments. I am available by email and phone to help along the way.

Need a book?
I can recommend The Excel 2007 Bible by John Walkenbach, available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble (cost $40 plus shipping).

Now, to navigate or move around in this class, there will be a navigation bar at the side of each page. The main topics of the class are seen there. These navigation links will be active after you log into the class. When the class begins you will be provided with the log-in information. Once you click on a topic, you will be taken to a page about that topic. What you will find is that each main topic has several topics within it. I would suggest using bookmarks to mark the area you are working on. If you bookmark a page, you can return at any time by using the bookmark. If you need help in setting bookmarks, you can read about bookmarks here. AND, there is a navigation bar at the bottom of each page which will also be active after the class begins.

I highly recommend starting at the beginning and working your way through the class. You will find that Step 2 uses information from Step 1 and so on.

Let's begin.