Week 1, starting Monday 2nd October
The
Information Systems Division (ISD) of UCL produce two documents on
Excel. It is believed
that most of the material described in the first booklet, Excel 2002 (XP) Part 1; Document 353, and a fair bit of
the second, Excel 2002 (XP) Part
2; Document 354, would have been
covered in IT courses at school or college. The two booklets may
be viewed via the links above. However do NOT print them out as
each is about 60 pages long and will waste your printing
allowance. Either document may be obtained (free of charge) from
the ISD helpdesk in the basement of the Lewis's building which is
situated at the corner of Gower Place and Gower Street. If having
looked through
the first booklet you feel that it is very unfamiliar, don't
panic. Tell the
demonstrators when you go to the Excel sessions and email Dr Dave
Tovee at d.tovee@ucl.ac.uk
with a brief note saying what parts you have and have not done
before. (If you wish to try the tasks and exercises in the
booklets Excel
2002 (XP) Part 1
and Excel
2002 (XP) Part 2, they are available here from a
local version of the
'ISD training' page.)
(Note: The two booklets referred to above are being
replaced at the start of the 2004/5 session by several booklets:
"Getting Started with Excel", "Getting Started with Excel - Exercises",
"Introduction to Excel Formulae and Functions", "Introduction to Excel
Formulae and Functions - Exercises", "Using Excel as a Simple
Database", "Excel as a Simple Database - Exercises" and "Excel
Charts". The exercises and references to page numbers relate to the
older booklets linked above.)
Your first Excel session relates to the
slightly more advanced features and topics covered in ISD's second
booklet and which is more relevant to
your use of Excel in practical work, i.e. production of graphs
(charts). The exercises for you
to try out your knowledge of Excel are modified
versions of, or selected from, those given in the ISD
booklets. Reference is made to
the page numbers of these booklets where help or explanation is
given. Help and guidance can also be obtained from the
demonstrators - or maybe your neighbour!
Open the
file "Excel-P&A-tasks" to
start the first week's exercises.
You may find that your browser attempts to open the spreadsheets or Word files directly in your browser window, rather than downloading them or calling up the appropriate handling application. This may produce something that looks like rubbish. However, don't panic - simply use "Save As" to save the files to disk. Make sure you save them with a ".xls" or ".doc" file extension as appropriate; you can then easily open them in Excel or Word.