Live workshopMicrosoft Office training for teams
Microsoft Excel Beginners (Level 1)
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Microsoft Excel Beginners (Level 1)
- Duration
- 7 hrs (2 sessions)
- Tuition
- $359.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
Most people learned Excel by watching someone else do it wrong.
Almost nobody was taught Excel. They watched a colleague, copied a file that already existed, and built from there. It works until the file gets big or the person who built it leaves, and then nobody can safely change anything.
This workshop replaces improvisation with foundation. Participants learn why a spreadsheet built one way survives and another falls over, what a cell reference actually does, and the handful of functions that cover most real work. Most discover they have been doing something manually for years that takes one formula.
HR and learning and development leaders use this for new hires and for staff who list Excel on a resume and use ten percent of it. Operations managers use it where reporting errors are traced back to a spreadsheet nobody understands. Exercises use your data and your reporting formats.
Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other data analytics and data literacy workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered in two sessions
- Hands on work using your own data and reporting formats
- Foundations in structure, formulas, references, and formatting
- Practice fixing broken spreadsheets, not just building new ones
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The first session is structure. Participants learn to lay out data so it can be sorted, filtered, and summarized later, which is the decision that determines whether a spreadsheet is useful in six months. They work on entering data cleanly, using tables rather than loose ranges, and formatting for a reader rather than for themselves.
The second session is formulas. Participants build up from arithmetic to the functions that carry most workplace analysis, and learn what relative and absolute references actually do, which is the single most common source of errors they will produce. They practice fixing broken formulas rather than only writing new ones.
The workshop closes on the work Excel should be doing for them: sorting, filtering, conditional formatting, and basic charts. Participants leave having rebuilt something they actually use, and knowing why the new version will not break.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Structure a spreadsheet so it can be sorted, filtered, and summarized later
- Understand what relative and absolute references actually do
- Write formulas that do not break when rows or columns move
- Use the core functions that cover most workplace analysis
- Diagnose and fix a broken formula
- Sort, filter, and conditionally format to find what matters
- Build a basic chart that communicates rather than decorates
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It assumes no Excel experience. Participants who are already comfortable with formulas should start with Microsoft Excel Intermediate (Level 2).
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$359.00 per participant
Microsoft Excel Beginners (Level 1) is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $359 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Microsoft Office training
Microsoft Office training for employees
Excel is the tool most teams use every day and the one fewest people were ever taught. DWC builds Microsoft Office training for employees in levels, from beginner foundations through advanced Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Power BI, so each person starts where they are and every session uses your own files.
Combine workshops into a Microsoft Office skills program for new hires, a single department, or a whole team moving work into Microsoft 365.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Can employees at different skill levels attend?
Most Microsoft Office workshops come in levels, from beginner through advanced, so you can place each employee in the right session. We can help you sort your team by level before you book.
Can you train our team on Excel, Word, and Outlook together?
Yes. Workshops can be combined into a multi-workshop program for a department or a new hire group, scheduled around your team and built around the files you use.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.