Excel 2007 Beginner help

I've worked in the pipefitting construction field for years.....now I'm in the office and am COMPLETELY new to excel.

I'm looking for advice on a quality online course..... price is not a concern. I've looked at free tutorials , but they don't look good for me.

Thanks, Jon

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Dom

Here are a few sites that I think are pretty good:

www.datapigtechnologies.com/ExcelMain.htm - Some good video tutorials
www.contextures.com/tiptech.html - A very comprehensive site with sample files and some video tutorials
www.cpearson.com/excel/MainPage.aspx - Another comprehensive site
spreadsheetpage.com - Some good tips and he's also an excellent author of Excel books which I would recommend

Dom

I should point out I don't think much of Excel courses in general and think you learn much better by taking tasks that you have to complete and researching how these can be done using Excel. I appreciate for a complete beginner that Excel can be quite daunting so a short course can be good to get the absolute basics but you can spend a lot of money on supposed Intermediate/Advanced courses that will teach you very little that you couldn't get from putting a bit of time in on forums like this and asking a few questions. In my experience a lot of people who run Excel courses have nothing more than a basic knowledge of it themselves.

Dom