Excel for Beginners [F-25-17]

Do you have Excel on your computer but don't have a clue how it works? Are you itching for a way to organize your spouse's bottle cap collection but don't know how? Would you like to make a daily calendar of your upcoming trip to Paris but don't know where to begin? This class will teach you, step by step, how to use Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, beginning with how to open it, how to enter information, how to use the features such as sorting, adding numbers, copying and importing data, eventually leading to making budgets, lists, calendars, inventories, to-do lists and other useful things. Please note this is a course for beginners or novices.

David Mathie, a Potsdam native, is the Chair of SOAR's Curriculum and Scheduling committees. In his pre-retirement life he was a professional trombone player in New York City, then a Professor of Music at Boise State University in Idaho for 22 years, where he taught trombone, music education, gave inservices and classes in basic computer techniques for college students and public school teachers, and is the father of a son who is a software engineer. He has had absolutely no formal training whatever in computers, but has used them since the 1980s and enjoys being the person who can usually fix my !#@!!computer problems.

Special Instructions:

This course is for beginners or novices. We will be using a SUNY Potsdam computer lab, but if you have your own laptop with Excel installed, please bring it. Everyone should also bring one thumb drive to use for saving files.

Cap: 10