Introduction to MS excel
- 2. Introduction: • Microsoft excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for windows, mac OS, android and i OS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called visual basic for applications. • It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993, and it has replaced lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets.
- 3. Overview: • Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that is used to record and analyse numerical data. • Alphabetical letters are usually assigned to columns and numbers are usually assigned to rows. • The point where a column and a row meet is called a cell. The address of a cell is given by the letter representing the column and the number representing a row.
- 4. Office button • The Office button is found in the top-left corner of Excel, Word, and other Office 2007 program windows and looks like the picture to the right. • When the Office button is clicked, many of the same options such as New, Open, Save, Print, etc., can be found.
- 5. Formatting text: • Excel’s text formatting capabilities can make the results of financial, statistical or scientific spreadsheet calculations more esthetical, pleasing and easier to follow. • It allows several Excel themes with predefined font families, colour schemes and text fill effects and apply them to the whole spreadsheet and also make discrete changes in the text style of individual cells by using the "Font group" options in Excel's "Home" tab ribbon.
- 6. To insert row and column • Select the row above or the column to the right of where the insertion should occur. Or click in any cell in that row or column. • Choose Home→Cells and click the arrow to the right of the Insert button to open the drop-down list for the Insert button. • From the menu, choose Insert Sheet Rows or Insert Sheet Columns.
- 7. Sorting and Editing: • Sorting • It is a common spreadsheet task that allows to easily reorder data. • The most common type of sorting is alphabetical ordering, • Editing: • Click the tab of the first worksheet that contains the data to be edited. • On the active worksheet, select the cell or range In the active cell, type new data or edit the existing data, and then press Enter or Tab to move the selection to the next cell.
- 8. Functions and formulas: • Formulas In Excel, a formula is an expression that operates on values in a range of cells or a cell. For example, =A1+A2+A3, which finds the sum of the range of values from cell A1 to Cell A3. • Functions They eliminate laborious manual entry of formulas while giving them human-friendly names. For example: =SUM(A1:A3). The function sums all the values from A1 to A3.