Our basic Excel training in Durban is a friendly one-day course for anyone who opens Excel and quietly closes it again. By the end of the day you’ll build, format and print tidy spreadsheets with confidence..
Our Basic Excel Training (Level 1) is a one-day, hands-on Microsoft Excel course for beginners, run by NETCONFIG at our office in Westville, Durban, at your offices or online.
You add up columns on a calculator, then type the answer into Excel. No judgement: lots of people use Excel as a very tidy table.
You’ve just started a new role and “basic Excel skills” was on the job description. Gulp.
You print a spreadsheet and it comes out on seven pages, with one lonely column on the last one.
This course is for you if you’re new to Excel, self-taught with a few gaps, or coming back after a long break, whether you work in admin, reception, sales, operations, HR or anywhere spreadsheets land on your desk.
Know the ribbon, cells, rows and columns, and where Excel hides the button you need.
Write simple formulas and use functions like SUM and AVERAGE, so your totals update themselves.
Insert, delete and resize rows and columns, and find and replace in seconds.
Format text and numbers, apply styles and use simple colour rules that highlight what matters.
Set up pages, headers and footers so your sheet fits neatly on paper or PDF.
Manage worksheets and views, and reuse templates so you never start from scratch.
Six short lessons with lots of hands-on practice. We can tweak the examples to match your team’s real work.
Confirms you completed the full Basic Excel course.
Confirms you passed a short practical assessment on what we covered. A good choice if you’d like proof of your skills for your manager or CV.
Our courseware is aligned to SAQA unit standard 116937 (“Use a GUI-based spreadsheet application to create and edit spreadsheets”, NQF Level 2, 4 credits).
Keshnie is NETCONFIG’s certified Microsoft trainer, with over 10 years of training experience and more than 1,000 people trained.
Her superpower? Explaining formulas in plain English, with examples from your actual job and not from a textbook.
Create, edit, format and print a spreadsheet.
You are hereTables, sorting and filtering, and smarter formatting to analyse your data.
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No. You just need to be comfortable using a computer, mouse and keyboard in Windows. We start from the very first click.
It’s one day of hands-on training. For one-on-one sessions, we can agree a schedule that suits you.
At our head office at 28 Essex Terrace, Westville, Durban, 3629, at your own offices, or live online. We support people throughout South Africa through dedicated technicians.
We teach Excel for Microsoft 365. The skills also apply to Excel 2019, 2021 and 2024, and we’re happy to show differences if your team uses an older version.
You choose: an Attendance Certificate, or a Certificate of Competency if you complete a short practical assessment on what we covered.
Our courseware is aligned to SAQA unit standard 116937, which covers creating and editing spreadsheets.
Pricing depends on how many people are training and whether you train with us in Westville, at your office or online. Send us a quick enquiry and we’ll send you a quote.
Yes. We can assess your team’s needs first and use examples from your own work, so people practise on spreadsheets they’ll actually use.
Tell us how many people are training, where you’d like to learn and roughly when. We’ll come back with dates and a quote, with no pressure and no jargon.
