Course 1 of the Excel series is designed for people who have never worked in Excel or have only the most basic of experience, and want to get an idea of the basic functionalities of this powerful program. The course firstly navigates the student through the interface. Secondly, it showcases many of the functionalities used in foundational Excel, and uses the central theme of a spreadsheet budget to show users how one would go about doing data entries and simple manipulations.