Watch this with a 10-15 minute audiotrack at http://vimeo.com/novusprogram/excel1 This lesson provides information on the basics of Excel, Microsoft’s powerful spreadsheet development tool. The topics covered include a basic review of the program’s toolbars and options, and an introduction to data entry and data formatting. The lesson teaches concepts through a combination of image-based slides and video tutorials. The objective of the lesson is for the user to be comfortable with operations such as opening and creating Excel documents, saving Excel documents, navigating the options and toolbar, entering data into the worksheet, and formatting data color and size. The Novus project is a combination of video tutorials designed to be used in conjunction with a free business simulation software program. The Novus Business and IT Program contains 36 business and IT training videos, covering basic finance, accounting, marketing, economics, business strategy, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users will have an opportunity to apply the lessons in the Novus Business Simulator. Over six rounds, the user or teams will have to make decisions on capital purchases, financing, production, financing, and human resources for a microbrewery. This channel has arranged the 36 video lessons into the order in which they are meant to be used with the simulator. To watch this slideshow as a video, please go to our Vimeo page at: https://vimeo.com/novusprogram. To download our free business simulation software, please go to our SourceForge page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novus/.