I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Microsoft Excel Comprehensive

2. Course Prefix & Number:
COMP 1135

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 4

Lecture Hours: 4

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course focuses on basic through advanced skill sets using the current Microsoft Excel Office Suite software application. Students will use the current version of Microsoft Excel to create charts, create analytical and financial reports, optimize data entry, create a family budget, format numerical (financial, statistical, etc.) reports, create forms, create graphing analyses, process data using what-if analyses, design reports, and create trending data. Students will learn to be proficient with advanced formulas, functions, and data analysis tools. Students will also learn to manipulate data for analysis, presentation, and collaboration. Students will learn to manipulate Excel options to customize their environment to meet varying organizational needs and enhance their productivity. Career Preparation: The studies in this course will help students prepare for careers in Business, Management, and general use of computer applications for nearly all organizations. It will also prepare students for careers in Computer Support, Information Technology, and Help Desk/Computer Repair Technician, Administrative Assistant and Administrative Support. Prerequisite advisory: Students are expected to know how to use a current operating system including navigation, saving files, file management/hierarchy structure, compression, extraction, installation of programs, setting up user accounts and administrative operating system tasks. Students without this experience should take COMP 1109 Introduction to Operating Systems either before they take this course or concurrently while they are taking this course.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

8. Prerequisite (Entry) Skills:
Students are expected to know how to use a current Windows operating system including navigation, saving files, file management/hierarchy structure, compression, extraction, installation of programs, setting up user accounts and administrative operating system tasks. Students without this experience should take COMP 1109 Introduction to Operating Systems either before they take this course or concurrently while they are taking this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

Hibbing Community College, CAPP 1520 Spreadsheets, 2 credits
Hibbing Community College, CAPP 1521 Advanced Spreadsheet Applications, 2 credits
Inver Hills Community College, CIS 1130 Introduction Microsoft Excel, 1 credit
Inver Hills Community College, CIS 1131 Intermediate Microsoft Excel , 1 credit
Rochester Community and Technical College, IT 7403 MS Excel  - Level 1, 2 credits
Rochester Community and Technical College, IT 7404 MS Excel 2007 - Level 2, 2 credits
Century College, CAPL 1025 Microsoft Excel, 3 credits

3. Prior Learning - the following prior learning methods are acceptable for this course:

• Written
• Oral
• Demonstration
• Portfolio

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Microsoft Office Specialist, Certificate
Administrative Support, Diploma
Administrative Assistant, AAS

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Use the Microsoft Excel Office Suite software application to effectively create advanced charts based on worksheet data.
Utilize appropriate technology	Use the Microsoft Excel Office Suite software application to effectively create advanced spreadsheets, charts, graphs, and analyses using multiple advanced formulas and functions.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Manage the Worksheet Environment
• Create Cell Data
• Format Cells and Worksheets
• Manage Worksheets and Workbooks
• Apply Formulas and Functions
• Present Data Visually
• Share worksheet data with other users
• Analyze and Organize Data
• Work with Macros and Forms
• Construct cell data
• Apply cell references in formulas
• Create and manipulate macros

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Managing the Worksheet Environment
• Navigate through a worksheet. This objective may include but is not limited to: Hot keys, name box.
• Print a worksheet or workbook. This objective may include but is not limited to: printing only selected worksheets, printing an entire workbook, constructing headers and footers, and applying printing options (scale, print titles, page setup, print area, gridlines).
• Personalize environment by using Backstage. This objective may include but is not limited to: Manipulate the Quick Access Toolbar, manipulate the ribbon tabs and groups, manipulate Excel default settings, import data to Excel, import data from Excel, demonstrate how to manipulate workbook properties, manipulate workbook files and folders. apply different name and file formats for different uses by using save and save as features.
2. Creating Cell Data
• Construct cell data. This objective may include but is not limited to: using paste special (formats, formulas, values, preview icons, transpose rows and columns, operations, comments, validation, paste as a link), and cutting, moving, and select cell data.
• Apply AutoFill. This objective may include but is not limited to: Copy data using AutoFill, fill series using AutoFill, copy or preserve cell format with AutoFill, select from drop-down list.
• Apply and manipulate hyperlinks. This objective may include but is not limited to: Create a hyperlink in a cell, modify hyperlinks, modify hyperlinked-cell attributes, remove a hyperlink.
3. Formatting Cells and Worksheets
• Apply and modify cell formats. This objective may include but is not limited to: aligning cell content, applying a number format, wrapping text in a cell, and using Format Painter.
• Merge or split cells. This objective may include but is not limited to: using Merge & Center, Merge Across, Merge cells, and Unmerge Cells.
• Create row and column titles. This objective may include but is not limited to: Print row and column headings, print rows to repeat with titles, print columns to repeat with titles, configure titles to print only on odd or even pages, configure titles to skip the first worksheet page.
• Hide and unhide rows and columns. This objective may include but is not limited to: Hide a column, unhide a column, hide a series of columns, hide a row, unhide a row, hide a series of rows.
• Manipulate Page Setup options for worksheets. This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure page orientation, manage page scaling, configure page margins, change header and footer size.
• Create and apply cell styles. This objective may include but is not limited to: Apply cell styles, construct new cell styles.
4. Managing Worksheets and Workbooks
• Create and format worksheets. This objective may include but is not limited to: Insert worksheets, delete worksheets, copy, reposition, copy and move, rename, grouping, apply coloring to worksheet tabs, hiding worksheet tabs, unhiding worksheet tabs.
• Manipulate window views. This objective may include but is not limited to: splitting window views, arranging window views, and opening a new window with contents from the current worksheet.
• Manipulate workbook views. This objective may include but is not limited to: using Normal, Page Layout, and Page Break workbook views, and creating custom views.
5. Applying Formulas and Functions
• Create formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: Use basic operators, revise formulas.
• Enforce precedence. This objective may include but is not limited to: Order of evaluation, precedence using parentheses, precedence of operators for percent vs. exponentiation.
• Apply cell references in formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: Relative, absolute.
• Apply conditional logic in a formula. This objective may include but is not limited to: Create a formula with values that match your conditions, edit defined conditions in a formula, use a series of conditional logic values in a formula.
• Apply named ranges in formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: Define, edit and rename a named range.
• Apply cell ranges in formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: Enter a cell range definition in the formula bar, define a cell range using the mouse, define a cell range using a keyboard shortcut.
• Audit formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: tracing formula precedents, dependents, and errors, locating invalid data or formulas, and correcting errors in formulas.
• Manipulate formula options. This objective may include but is not limited to: setting iterative calculation options and enabling or disabling automatic workbook calculation.
• Perform data summary tasks. This objective may include but is not limited to: using an array formula and using a SUMIFS function.
• Apply functions in formulas. This objective may include but is not limited to: finding and correcting errors in functions, applying arrays to functions, and using Statistical, Date and Time, Financial, Text, and Cube functions.
6. Presenting Data Visually
• Create charts based on worksheet data.
• Apply and manipulate illustrations. This objective may include but is not limited to: Clip Art, SmartArt, shapes, screenshots.
• Create and modify images by using the Image Editor. This objective may include but is not limited to: making corrections to an image (sharpen or soften an image, changing brightness and contrast), using picture color tools, and changing artistic effects on an image.
• Apply Sparklines. This objective may include but is not limited to: using Line, Column, and Win/Loss chart types, creating a Sparkline chart, customizing a Sparkline, formatting a Sparkline, and showing or hiding data markers.
• Apply advanced chart features. This objective may include but is not limited to: using Trend lines, Dual axes, chart templates, and Sparklines
• Apply data analysis. This objective may include but is not limited to: using automated analysis tools and performing What-If analysis
• Apply and manipulate PivotTables. This objective may include but is not limited to: manipulating PivotTable data and using the slicer to filter and segment your PivotTable data in multiple layers.
• Apply and manipulate PivotCharts. This objective may include but is not limited to: creating, manipulating, and analyzing PivotChart data.
• Demonstrate how to use the slicer. This objective may include but is not limited to: choosing data sets from external data connections.
7. Sharing worksheet data with other users
• Share spreadsheets by using Backstage. This objective may include but is not limited to: sending a worksheet via E-mail or Skydrive, changing the file type to a different version of Excel, and saving as PDF or XPS.
• Manage comments. This objective may include but is not limited to: inserting, viewing, editing, and deleting comments.
• Apply workbook settings, properties, and data options. This objective may include but is not limited to: setting advanced properties, saving a workbook as a template, and importing and exporting XML data.
• Apply protection and sharing properties to workbooks and worksheets. This objective may include but is not limited to: protecting the current sheet, protecting the workbook structure, restricting permissions, and requiring a password to open a workbook.
• Maintain shared workbooks. This objective may include but is not limited to: merging workbooks and setting Track Changes options.
8. Analyzing and Organizing Data
• Filter data. This objective may include but is not limited to: Define, apply, remove, search, filter lists using AutoFilter.
• Sort data. This objective may include but is not limited to: using sort options (values, font color, cell color)
• Apply conditional formatting. This objective may include but is not limited to: Apply conditional formatting to cells, use the Rule Manager to Apply Conditional Formats, use the IF Function and Apply Conditional Formatting, icon sets, data bars, clear rules.
9. Working with Macros and Forms
• Create and manipulate macros. This objective may include but is not limited to: running a macro, running a macro when a workbook is opened, running a macro when a button is clicked, recording an action macro, assigning a macro to a command button, creating a custom macro button on the Quick Access Toolbar, and applying modifications to a macro.
• Insert and manipulate form controls. This objective may include but is not limited to: inserting form controls and setting form properties.