About the course
Excel is one of the most widely used workplace tools — and this course makes sure you can use it with confidence.
Designed for beginners, Excel Essential Skills gives you a solid, practical foundation across four half-day sessions. You'll learn to create, edit and format worksheets, build basic formulas and functions, and manage and print workbooks effectively. By the end, you'll be able to organise data with ease and handle everyday Excel tasks without hesitation.
Whether you're new to Excel or simply never had formal training, this course is built around real workplace scenarios — so what you learn, you can apply immediately. No prior Excel experience needed; a working knowledge of Windows is all that's required.
Course content
- Navigate the Excel environment and manage workbooks with ease
- Enter, edit and format data to create clear, professional worksheets
- Build basic formulas and use core functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MIN and MAX
- Work with rows, columns, themes and the Format Painter
- Save, print and manage workbooks using Excel's Backstage view
- Find, replace and manage data across multiple worksheets
Certification
On successful completion of this course, participants receive a UCT ICTS Certificate of Completion. Attendance at all four sessions is required. Participants who miss more than one session will not qualify for certification.
Cost and registration
- External delegates: R1,200 - enrol directly through The Learning Store (below)
- UCT staff (permanent and T1–T2 contractors): No cost - register via SuccessFactors or LinkedIn Learning
- UCT staff with third party accounts: No cost - request a discount voucher code from icts-training@uct.ac.za BEFORE enrolling for the course
- UCT students: No cost - register via LinkedIn Learning
More information
Phone: (+27) 21 650 5392
Email: icts-training@uct.ac.za
Microsoft Excel Essential Skills
= (0)