Getting Started with Excel Tutorial

The University of Newcastle offers this free 12-page guide, titled Getting Started with Excel. This will assist you with getting started Excel. It provides an excellent example of a spreadsheet that you can use to learn several important Excel features. Using Excel, you can manage and create many types of information, from lists of similar data to complex financial calculations, along with drawing and displaying charts and graphs. (126kb, pdf format)

The Excel Guide is divided into two parts:
  - Part 1 is a hands-on spreadsheet tutorial
  - Part 2 presents additional topics and areas to increase your Excel knowledge

Contents:

Part 1: Practical tutorial
  - The Basics
  - Creating a worksheet
  - Altering layouts
  - Making a chart
  - Leaving Excel

Part 2: Building on the basics
  - The different forms of online help
  - Printing a worksheet
  - Other useful things to know
  - How to make copies of files
  - Learning more
  - Using Google
  - The Helpline