Electronic Excel Tutor - Office 2007/2013 Basics

Nowadays, in most actions undertaken in the business and education sectors, one must have the skills to use complex software for working with chart data, statistical processing and spreadsheets. For people who are just entering this field or more experienced users, an easy and efficient way of learning to work with software such as Microsoft Office Excel is mandatory. Electronic Excel Tutor will help users to better understand how to handle Excel, through a series of structured lessons and demonstrations, accompanied by special tips and quizzes.

Right off the box, the application’s interface will not impress through its basic looks and although it provides easy access to its multiple features, its layout and color choice might feel eye tiring at first. All the contents which cover the functionality of Excel are well structured into lessons, which are accessible through large buttons.

In addition to the actual lessons, the interface also offers users other useful features for creating and managing bookmarks, accessing the index or title page. These are color-coded and their theme will be maintained throughout the rest of the windows and menus, for a more efficient use.

Each lesson will be displayed in a scrolling interface, where users can choose their own font size, for attaining the desired view. Complementing the lesson content are useful buttons for bookmarking pages, quick access to the index course map or main menu. For those who rely on side notes, the application offers direct access to opening a document in whichever text editor they might have installed on their PCs.

Users are able to easily scroll through the content and all the lessons contain numerous hints and hyperlinks to exercises for training. However, its quite basic interface that features a rough aspect, with vivid colors and unfinished design might be cutting down on the ease-of-use. Regardless of this being a tutoring application, its help module is much too basic for what it features and novice users might be frustrated by this.

Users who require a quick of efficient way of learning Excel or improving their existing skills could consider choosing this application. It will offer them a fair collection of lessons that cover the handling of spreadsheets and Excel techniques, together with numerous useful functions such bookmarking, notes, index page and search. On the downside of things, its interface might have benefited from some improvements in terms of a smoother design and better color choices.