how to teach a novice?

[GaryR]

ok, so my wife knows almost nothing at all about Excel, but she wants to learn so that she can get into a job doing admin or something. she's used it like twice in her whole life. But everytime i try to sit down with her and start with even the basics, she gets frustrated at how much there is to it and how powerful it can get so fast, and i get frustrated because i never really know where to start and how in depth to get with anything with her cause i'm fairly advanced.

who knows a really good book or a really good *free* online class for people that have never used excel before? I tried the microsoft.com tutorials but she got frustrated at how slow they went over the parts that she did know... grrr...


thanks!

 

[mordrid]

My wife started using excel only when she had a project which needed it. Now although not an advanced user she gets by and makes spreadsheets work for her (not the most efficient) but logical for her!!!!

Best way to learn have a project and someone on hand with patience to 'guide and not do' this way you learn whilst doing something you need. If you don't have a project think one up such as keeping track of spending, food used inc qty, price etc, CD or book collection....