MS Excel for Beginners

Almost every South African workplace uses spreadsheets: stock lists in a hardware store, timesheets on a construction site, sales figures in a shop, attendance registers at a school and budgets in every office. Job adverts for admin, stores, sales and reception posts often ask for "computer literacy" or "working knowledge of Excel". This course gives you that working knowledge, step by step, from the first time you open the program. You will learn your way around the Excel screen, enter text, numbers and dates correctly, format a sheet so it is easy to read, write formulas, use SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX and COUNT, sort and filter a list, build clear charts, and print, save and share your work safely. Every lesson uses the same practice data, a sales list from a fictional hardware store, so you can follow each step on your own computer. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson gives exact steps for Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365) on a Windows 11 computer, and a hands-on activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task, a final assessment and a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.