Excel skills for beginners

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1. Getting started
   - switching on
   - using the mouse
   - saving time
2. Getting to know Excel
   - the title bar
   - the menu bar
   - toolbars
   - toolbar icons
   - worksheets
   - the formula bar
   - the keyboard
   - selecting cells
3. Using Excel to type a spreadsheet
   - opening a new document
   - opening an existing document from the File menu
   - opening an existing document from your 'filing system'
4. Saving your work
   - saving to your hard drive
   - saving to other media
   - saving a document under a different name
5. Printing, how to exit Excel and shut down
6. Inputting (entering) text and data
   - adjusting the column width
   - cell alignment
   - adding bold, underline and italic
   - changing the typeface and font size
   - working with long text
   - changing a single column width
   - autosum
   - autofill
   - creating graphs and charts