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Create, view, edit, and share your spreadsheets using Excel for Mac. Now it’s easier than ever to work with spreadsheets across your devices and with others. Share your files and collaborate in real time within a document or edit Office docs attached to emails. Create a drop-down list. Conditional formatting. Print headings on every page. Copy a formula by dragging the fill handle. Count how often a value occurs. VLOOKUP refresher. Merge and unmerge cells in Excel for Mac. Excel 2016 Mac Basic Learn by doing—not watching—with interactive simulations. Feb 26, 2020 Step 1, Install Microsoft Office if you don't have it. Microsoft Excel isn't available as a standalone program, but it is included in a Microsoft Office package or subscription.Step 2, Open an existing Excel document. If you want to open an existing Excel document at any time, simply double-click the document in question. This will bring up the document in an Excel window. Skip this step if you want to open a new document in Excel.Step 3, Open Excel. Click or double-click the Excel app icon. Download Microsoft Excel for macOS 10.13 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. This application requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription. Microsoft 365 includes premium Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, 1 TB cloud storage in OneDrive, advanced security, and more, all in one convenient subscription.
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New to Excel or need a refresher? This online course is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of Excel for Mac.
Supports Excel for Mac 2016. Also available: Excel Basic (PC).
Supports Excel for Mac 2016. Also available: Excel Basic (PC).
In 24 engaging lessons you will learn how to use math, statistical, logic and text functions, organize data by sorting and filtering, effectively present your data in several chart formats and more.
Whether you use Excel for work or study, these tutorials will start you on your journey to becoming an Excel Ninja! Learn more about how a GoSkills Excel certification can boost your career.
Video tutorials are recorded in Microsoft Excel for Mac 2016.
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The Ribbon
Identify the terminology and elements of the Ribbon.
The Work Surface
Recognize the main terms used to describe Excel’s work canvas.
Navigation
Utilize the keyboard or mouse to select cells and ranges in a spreadsheet.
First File
Create your first Excel file, enter data and create a table.
Formatting
Format cells by selecting fonts and color fills to make information more attractive.
Basic Math
Utilize basic mathematics including multiplication and division in Excel.
Formula Anatomy
Understanding Excel Formula Anatomy.
Cell Referencing
Learn about working with absolute and relative cell referencing, and techniques for copying formulas.
Function Anatomy
Use to understand the anatomy of Excel functions, and what their components mean.
Math Functions
Learn basic math functions including SUM, ROUND and SUBTOTAL.
Basic Statistics
Learn basic statistical functions including COUNT, COUNTA, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, MEDIAN and MODE.
Logic Functions
Learn to build standalone logical IF functions, and make them more complex by nesting AND and OR within them.
Text Functions
Learn to break apart text with the LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND and SEARCH functions, and to combine text with the & character.
Conditional Math
Learn to use SUMIF, COUNTIF and SUMPRODUCT to add cells only when certain conditions are met.
External Links
Learn about creating and updating external links, and about the potential dangers of external links in Excel.
Sorting
Learn to sort data in Excel by a single column or by multiple columns.
Filtering
Learn to filter Excel data for specific words, dates, and apply multiple filters to a single data table.
Contiguous Data
Learn tricks for consolidating your data so it's vertically contiguous (without blank rows) – for Tables, PivotTables and Charts.
Cell Formatting
Learn to work with the Format Cells dialog to apply text rotation and borders, and to center data across multiple cells.
Building Column Charts
Learn how to create an effective column chart by reducing ink and 'noise' that distract from the main messages.
Building Bar Charts
How to create an effective bar chart by reducing ink and noise that distract from the story.
Building Pie Charts
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Learn how to build an effective pie chart, and when you should and shouldn’t use them.
Building Line Charts
How to create an effective line chart through careful manipulation of chart elements to enhance its story telling ability.
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I'm using an older Mac version of Excel. Is there a free Basic Skills book for earlier versions?
Yes. We also publish a version of this title for Excel 2016 for Apple Mac. We do not publish version of this book for older versions than this.
We do publish books (including the free Basic Skills book) for the very old Windows versions that are no longer fully supported by Microsoft (Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013)
Which version of Excel was used to write this book?
This book was written using the first public release of Excel 2019 for Mac.
I'm using Excel 365 for Mac (the subscription version of Excel), can I use this book to learn Excel?
Yes you can.
Excel 365 for Mac is the subscription version of Excel 2019 for Mac.
Unlike Excel 2019 for Mac, the subscription version can potentially be changed (or have new features added) at any time as it is constantly updated.
Excel 365 for Mac and Excel 2019 for Mac were identical in January 2019 but could change in the future. Any changes are likely to be minor and easily worked-around so you shouldn’t have any difficulties using this book to learn Excel 365 for Mac.
The Windows versions of Excel 365 are updated in a different way to the Mac versions with major semi-annual scheduled new versions (in January and July every year). For this reason we publish different books for Excel 2019 for Windows and Excel 365 for Windows.
The free Basic Skills Excel for Apple Mac tutorial will get you started with Excel fundamentals. Even though it is a basic skills course you’ll still master many skills that professional Excel users are unable to use. Available entirely free as an e-book.
Click here and the e-book will open straight away. Read the first two pages and you’ll immediately realize why millions of learners have found this free course so useful.
Also available for Excel 2016 for Apple Mac.
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