KLiC Fundamentals of Excel - Formulas, and Functions (30 hours)

Master the core of Excel with this beginner-friendly guide to essential formulas and functions.

KLiC Fundamentals of Excel - Formulas, and Functions (30 hours)
Course Features:
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 30 hours (1 month)
  • Learning Mode: Center
  • Jurisdiction: Maharashtra
  • Certificate of Completion
Eligibility
  • Learner should preferably a std. 10th Pass student (Not Compulsory)
  • It is desirable that Learner should have done MS-CIT Course (Not Compulsory)
List of ALCs

Introduction

Excel skills are as important as the subject knowledge. Those who know Excel can find a better paying job. An Excel Expert collects, edits, analyses data, creates data bases and reports. The conclusions made by the data expert are helpful for organizations to forecast the business speculations.

Objectives of the Course:

  • Understand the Integration and Utility of Microsoft 365 and Excel 365: Learn how Excel 365 integrates with the broader suite of Microsoft 365 applications, emphasizing cloud-based collaboration and real-time data analysis.
  • Master the Basics of Microsoft Excel: Gain foundational knowledge in Excel operations, including data entry, formula application, and basic spreadsheet navigation and management.
  • Apply Custom Formats and Layouts: Able to customize Excel sheets using styles, templates, views, and outlines to enhance readability and presentation of data.
  • Utilize Conditional Formatting for Data Analysis: Learn to apply conditional formatting to highlight or distinguish data based on specific criteria, aiding in more effective data analysis and decision-making.
  • Effectively Manage and Share Excel Workbooks: Manage workbooks efficiently and share them securely within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, leveraging Excel's exclusive features for collaboration.

Who Should Join

  • Accounting and Finance Students – To gain practical skills in managing data, preparing reports, and performing financial analysis.
  • Business and Management Students – Essential for understanding data-driven decision-making, budgeting, and inventory management.
  • Data Analysts and Aspiring Data Professionals – Offers foundational tools like pivot tables, formulas, and scenario analysis for handling large datasets.
  • Retail Store Managers and Logistics Staff – Useful for inventory tracking, sales analysis, and reporting.
  • Human Resources (HR) Professionals – Beneficial for managing employee data, attendance records, and performance analysis.
  • Project Managers – Enables tracking project progress, managing resources, and scenario planning for effective project outcomes.
  • Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners – Essential for budgeting, sales analysis, and performance reporting to optimize business decisions.

What you'll learn ?

After completion of the course, you can get a suitable position in any organization as an Accounts Assistant, Finance Analyst, Retail Store Manager and Data Analyst in any organization.

  • Demonstrate the ability to use Excel 365 as part of the Microsoft 365 suite to collaborate on projects, access documents from anywhere, and utilize cloud-based features for enhanced productivity.
  • Navigate and Utilize Excel Effectively: Exhibit proficiency in navigating the Excel user interface, performing basic operations, and applying formulas and functions for data manipulation.
  • Customize Excel Spreadsheets: Apply custom formats, styles, and layouts to Excel documents, making data more accessible and presentations more professional.
  • Analyse Data with Conditional Formatting: Use conditional formatting to automatically highlight important data points, trends, or outliers, facilitating quicker analysis and insights.
  • Collaborate and Manage Workbooks: Manage Excel workbooks effectively, including sharing and securing data within the Microsoft 365 environment, and leverage Excel's unique features to enhance collaboration and data analysis.

Certification

  • KLiC courses are recognised by Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
  • MKCL provides certificate to the KLiC learner after his/her successful course completion.
  • Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) provides mark sheet to successfully passed KLiC learners (Jurisdiction: Maharashtra).

Academic Approach

The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:

  • Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
  • Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
  • Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
  • Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
  • Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
  • Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
  • Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
  • Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
  • Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
  • Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
  • Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
  • Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Microsoft 365 and Excel 365
  • Basics of Microsoft Excel
  • Apply Custom Styles and Templates
  • Using Custom Views and Outlines
  • Introduction
  • Top & Bottom Categories
  • Greater Than
  • Highlight Cells Rules - Less Than, Between, Equal To, Clear Rules
  • Highlight Cells Rules - A Date Occurring
  • Highlighting cells rules
  • Data Bars, Color Scales, Icon Sets
  • New Rule
  • Apply Custom Data Formats *Using Advanced Fill Option
  • Manage and Share Workbooks
  • Exclusive Features of Excel in Microsoft 365

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

Section No. Section Name Total Marks Minimum Passing Marks
1 Learning Progression 25 10
2 Internal Assessment 25 10
3 Final Online Examination 50 20
Total 100 40
4 SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments) 5 Assignments 2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded
YCMOU Mark Sheet

Printed Mark Sheet will be issued by YCMOU on successful completion of Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 and will be delivered to the learner by MKCL.
YCMOU Mark Sheet will be available only for Maharashtra jurisdiction learners

MKCL's KLiC Certificate

The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

  1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
  2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
    • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments

Courses Fee Structure from 01 July, 2025

KLiC 30 hour course fee applicable from 01 July, 2025 all over Maharashtra

KLiC Course Duration MFO: MKCL Share
(Including 18% GST)		 ALC Share
(Service Charges to be collected by ALC*)		 MKCL Certificate YCMOU Marksheet
30 hours Rs. 300/- Rs. 1,500/- Available Not Available
Important Points:
* ALCs can collect additional 18% GST from Learner on ALC Share
* Above mentioned fee is applicable for all Modes of KLiC Courses offered at Authorised Learning Center (ALC) and at Satellite Center
* Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
* MKCL reserves the right to modify the Fees of Courses during the year without any prior notice and MKCL shall not be liable to anyone for any such modification/s
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