Microsoft Excel for Beginners [F-26-34]

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.

A Potsdam native, David Mathie has served on the SOAR Board since 2019 and is Chair of the Curriculum and Scheduling committees. He was awarded the SOAR SuperSOARer award in 2026. In his pre-retirement life he was a Professor of Music at Boise State University in Idaho for 24 years, where he taught trombone and music education, 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 was also a former professional trombone player in New York City. 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:

A laptop is required.

Cap: 10