Your lab reports will require you to use Microsoft (MS) Excel. Excel is a computer software program that is useful for organizing data, completing calculations, developing graphs (Excel calls these charts), and analyzing data.

Before You Get Started

Determine if you already have access to Excel on your computer. If so, you can go directly to the "Using Excel: The Basics" section below. If you do not, continue on to the next step.
If you need to access Excel through your UWW Microsoft 365 account, here are two resources to help you get started:
1. Accessing your Microsoft 365 account—On this page, there is a button for the Microsoft 365 Login. Logging in gives you access to the online version of the MS tools. We recommend that you also install the desktop version, see the next step.
2. Installing Microsoft 365 apps onto your computer—Once you have online access, this resource walks you through installing MS Apps onto your computer, which gives you a desktop version
If you run into problems, email helpdesk@uww.edu or call (262) 472-4357 for assistance.

Using Excel: The Basics

🛑 Important: If you do not have any experience with Excel and you have not watched these videos, it will be challenging to complete the experiments in this course.

Complete the Excel basics training. As you watch each video below, you are encouraged to open an Excel document and work along with the examples.
Each video link below also contains a "Practice Workbook" you can download and follow along with.
- Cell Basics(~5 min)
- Formulas (~4 min)
- More Complex Formulas (~5 min)
- Charts (~ 5 min)

Next Steps

Complete the Lab Safety and Using Excel Quiz (You have 10 attempts to complete this quiz.)
Sign the Lab Safety Agreement form