Excel Tutorial for Beginners | Excel Made Easy

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Welcome to the beginner-friendly guide to Microsoft Excel. This tutorial offers a concise, step-by-step introduction to Excel, ensuring a comfortable start for beginners. Whether you're new to spreadsheets or need a refresher, this tutorial covers the essentials, from opening a new workbook to basic data entry and formatting.
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This basic tutorial is for all versions of Excel (Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019 and Excel for Office 365).
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✨ Key Highlights:
▪️ Understanding Excel Interface: Get a walkthrough of the Excel opening screen, learning about workbooks, sheets, and basic navigation.
▪️ Cell Basics: Learn how each box is a cell with its unique address, and how to input and edit data in cells.
▪️ Navigating and Selecting Cells: Discover how to jump to specific cells, select multiple cells, rows, or columns, and use shortcuts for efficiency.
▪️ Organizing Data with Sheets: Find out how to add, rename, and organize multiple sheets within a workbook for structured data management.
▪️ Basic Formatting Tips: Learn to adjust cell sizes, merge cells, and apply basic formatting like text alignment and color.
▪️ Using Formulas and Functions: Understand the basics of entering formulas, using functions like SUM, and the magic of the fill handle for quick calculations.
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00:00 Learn the Basics of Microsoft Excel
00:27 Anatomy of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel
01:20 What is a Cell in Microsoft Excel
03:50 What is a Range in Microsoft Excel
04:41 Excel Cursor and Mouse Pointer Shapes
05:48 How to Change Size of Rows and Columns in Excel
07:26 How to Use the Ribbon in Microsoft Excel
09:25 How to Enter Data in Microsoft Excel
11:47 How to Format Data in Microsoft Excel
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Glad it was helpful!

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Happy to help, Tammy!

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Thank you! This was explained more clearly than other tutors. I appreciate the interactive as you are learning. Thank you so much!

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That's great to hear! Keep learning :)

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Easy to understand. I have gone through a few other videos on excel which I have had to go through several times to understand what they were doing.

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Leila, thank you so much for this in depth tutorial. I just finished watching a gentleman from India, and went into the advanced explanation without defining each button as you did. You were much easier to understand, a little fast but was able to keep up enough to not rewind. Anyway, I learned more today. Thank you@. I did learn some from the other. Both video's thank you!

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Glad it was helpful, Dale!

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Thank you Leila. I like the short video and I see you have other short videos too, which makes it easy for a person who has a short attention span. :)

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You actually gave us a TON of basic info which is superbly helpful to start off. I'm starting a new job today which requires some basics although they did say they will train me up on it if I need it but I felt I should go in with something. I watched a previous tutorial video from one guy and although it was superb and went into more advanced elements later on I hit a roadblock which I just could not mentally get past. This video REALLY put my mind at ease. Thank you SOO much for sharing your knowledge with us Leila, you got a new subber : ]

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I’m currently at my new job,they’re supposed to teach me but they’re not here yet,so I’m trying to learn from her and I watched another guy and even screen recorded but his looks so hard…so I’m here now😁

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Just started on my Excell journey in a new job role. This was a great introduction into the basic spreadsheet creation and a bit more. Appreciate the detail and not rushing through. Looking forward to the rest of your content!

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heyy, Im starting the same journey. just watched this one. do you have some plans or ideas for practice exercises? where can we find them?

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@@meryama4066 I honestly don’t. I have battled through very simple spreadsheets and used some of the Excell templates to complete reports and have just begun to research more info on Excell. Good Luck!

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very good refresher.....still learnt something new

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Well organized Intro Leila. Nice job. Great for the beginner audience. Have a nice weekend.

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Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

[@MrKlit2000]

Instead of using the Paint brush for copying a format, you can use the short key Ctrl. + Y, which also give you the posibility to repeat the last action you did, no matter what it was. This also goes for Word and PowerPoint :) So anything you do in Excel can be repeated, like eg. adding a row, you can set in alot of rows, just buy pushing Ctrl. + Y several times.

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Pretty much any hot keys work across windows not just programs but the platform itself. Like cntrl p for example will print even in the internet browser. If it's possible to use the function then the hot key can be used. I think this is even true in apple, though they have their own patterns and hot keys

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But I gotta tell u hot keys frusturate me so much. People who think they know computers only know one task on one program very well because someone helped them memorize each step. When you try to teach them hot keys they freeze the hell up. I train this older woman at work. And I can't get her to use cntrl s or cntrl n or even cntrl p to save her life. She has to manually click on the icon. Its so infuriating.

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@@juanmccoy3066lol most of the world isn’t smart like you. :) You could make a excel work sheet with all of the hotkeys and it’s function, one column hotkey, another column the function. Highlight the column, hit control F and find the desired function. :) I need to make one of these for myself actually;) Good luck dealing with the Population HAHA ! ;)

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Thank you for the tutorial. I’m late to the party but I’m excited to be entering the Excel world!

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Thanks, Leila for your nice explanation!

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Your an amazing teacher! Thanks a lot lady !

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Thank you, Leila. You ROCK!

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Brilliant video, thank you !

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WOW! thank you, honestly, this helped me!!! so many videos on here that are too complicated or don't explain well enough, bravo!!1

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This was immensely helpful, thank you!!

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Great video as always. Thank you!

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This was awesome. I feel empowered to try using Excel again!

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Thank you so much, you have explained very well & Excel has been made easy for me

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you are an amazing teacher thank you!

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Oh! Leila. You just make learning fun and easy. Thank you!❤

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Dear Leila , this is very exciting and Stright forward and clear English too to audiences. I have learned a lot today from this tutorial and i want to be a master of excel like one day.

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Hello there everyone I have been wanting to learn about different things and I downloaded excel and came across this video to find help on how to use it. I think thew way Leila exsplains this is the best she doesnt make it difficult. I was a slow learner and trying to increase the way I learn as well as the speed she did a great job with this video and i would recommmend anyone just learning to watch her. have a great evening. :']

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This was so helpful! Thank you for the video

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Thank you laila your KZbin video of excels beginners best and helpful, thank you.

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This video is a good, clear, concise introduction to Excel.

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Thank you for this tutorial. You’ve helped me become more proficient with excel 😁

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IM on here like everyone else, very intermediating, and would love to learn more basics. thank you, this is my 2nd video, and thus far, I do feel like im actually learning something.