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Microsoft Basic Excel (Based on AdventureWorks)

You are the analyst at AdventureWorks, a bicycle manufacturer selling through stores all over the world. Every week the sales team logs thousands of orders, and the raw numbers are piling up across seven worksheets - Customer, Date, Product, Reseller, Sales, SalesOrder and SalesTerritory. Your mission is to turn those 121,000+ rows of raw sales data into clear, decision-ready information: format it as a proper table, sort and filter it, add up the sales, classify every sale, chart the results and summarise everything in a PivotTable. This beginner Excel course covers the Excel screen, worksheet structure, formatting, sorting and filtering, formulas and functions, the IF function, charts, and an introduction to PivotTables.

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Preview the journey below — 7 hands-on labs. Enroll to unlock the labs, study notes, the practice quiz and the certification exam.

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Hands-On Labs

Basic Excel Training with AdventureWorks Sales

Apply Excel basics to the real AdventureWorks Sales workbook: formatting, sorting, filtering, formulas, IF, charts and PivotTables.

45 min · Enrolled users only

Getting Started with the AdventureWorks Workbook

Download the workbook, open it safely, save a practice copy and get to know its seven data tables.

35 min · Enrolled users only

Meet the Excel Screen

Learn the parts of the Excel screen and practise moving around the AdventureWorks workbook with shortcuts.

30 min · Enrolled users only

Format the Sales Data

Turn raw AdventureWorks data into a readable table with date and currency formats.

30 min · Enrolled users only

Sort and Filter Sales

Sort sales by amount or date and filter the records down to a single product or territory.

30 min · Enrolled users only

Build Formulas and IF Decisions

Calculate totals, averages, counts and maximums, then classify every sale with the IF function.

35 min · Enrolled users only

Chart Sales and Build a PivotTable

Summarise AdventureWorks sales with a clustered column chart and your first PivotTable.

35 min · Enrolled users only