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This video contains an introduction and overview of Microsoft Excel 2013--such as what operating systems it supports, what are its standard systems requirements, what devices you can use it with, and more. These details will guide you in using Excel 2013 on your device. Microsoft Excel 2013 is the latest version of Microsoft's Excel products, which is the most popular spreadsheet product used by millions of people around the world. Some of the changes introduced in Excel 2013 are intended for people who use touch screens.

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Hello and welcome to our course on Excel 2013. My name is Toby and I’m your instructor on this course.
Excel 2013 is the latest version of Microsoft’s Excel product and Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet product. It’s used on PC’s, on Macs, and soon on various other devices and literally millions of people around the world use Excel every day not only for things like personal finances, but also it’s used in big business. And it’s very important in areas of business such as finance.

First of all, I’d like to talk about who this course is for. If you haven’t used a spreadsheet product before and in particular if you haven’t used Microsoft Excel before, this course is for you. I’m going to be going right from the basics of Excel and hopefully I’ll be explaining it in enough detail that you can get up to speed pretty quickly. I will be assuming that you have a reasonable knowledge of using a Windows-based operating system. So I won’t be explaining terms like what a mouse is and what a click is and so on and scrollers and scroll bars and dialogs. I’m assuming that standard Windows terminology and Windows usage you’re familiar with. But I won’t be assuming anything about knowledge of how spreadsheets work and how to use a spreadsheet program.

If you’ve used Microsoft Excel before in an earlier version then what I’m going to do at various points is to point out in certain sections that maybe there’s a part you can skip or maybe there’s a part you could go through quickly because there’s no significant change in this new version. Having said that, if the version of Excel you’re used to is older than the 2007 version, so if you’ve been using Excel 2000, for example, or Excel 2003, then this version is so different that you probably need to go through the whole thing. You won’t be used to the Ribbon interface, whereas people with a newer version, 2010, 2007 version, will be familiar with the Ribbon interface. Although to be fair, there are some significant changes in the Ribbon in this version as we’ll see a little bit later on.

So if you’re familiar with Excel, a version 2007 or newer, then there will be a few parts that you can skip or go through quickly. If you’re used to an older version or you’re completely new to Excel, I suggest you sit back and enjoy the whole course.

The next thing I’d like to talk about is the sort of device that you’re using to run Excel 2013. The device that I’m recording this on is a conventional PC in a way, but it also has a touch screen and I can use gestures, hand gestures, in front of the screen. Now in the course, mainly, I’m going to be using keyboard and mouse because that is still the way that most people use Microsoft Excel. I will be using touch screen once or twice just to demonstrate what any of the differences are and I’ll cover touch screen in general a little bit later on. It’s important to recognize that some of the changes in Excel 2013 are in fact intended to accommodate people that use touch screens. So it’s quite an important factor. But I won’t be using touch screen extensively. If you are using touch screen to use Excel, then I hope that I’ll cover enough material that you can proceed with confidence using the touch screen facilities of your PC, laptop, tablet, or whatever sort of device you’re using.

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