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What Is Excel?: Microsoft Excel (Full Name Microsoft Office Excel) Is A

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft that allows users to organize data into cells within a grid of rows and columns. It features tools for calculations, graphing, pivot tables, and macro programming. Excel benefits users like accountants and managers who need to track budgets and spending. The basic spreadsheet contains rows numbered vertically and columns lettered horizontally, with cells located at each intersection where data or formulas can be entered. An Excel workbook can contain multiple worksheets.

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What Is Excel?: Microsoft Excel (Full Name Microsoft Office Excel) Is A

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft that allows users to organize data into cells within a grid of rows and columns. It features tools for calculations, graphing, pivot tables, and macro programming. Excel benefits users like accountants and managers who need to track budgets and spending. The basic spreadsheet contains rows numbered vertically and columns lettered horizontally, with cells located at each intersection where data or formulas can be entered. An Excel workbook can contain multiple worksheets.

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What is excel?

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet-application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows Spreadsheet: spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing either alphanumeric text or numeric values. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).

BENEFITS.
Allows users to create worksheets of data. This is useful for accountants and Managers in a company who want to monitor their budgets or keep track of other spending. Both the 2003 and 2007 version of Microsoft Excel can perform the same functions, though the commands.

The Basic Spread Sheet


Rows are numbered vertically
Columns are lettered horizontally

Where rows and columns intersect is called a cell


A sheet is made up of a set of rows and columns

An excel work book contains several sheets

BASIC FEATURE

DESCRIPTIONS

Columns & rows: identification


CELL:
Cell is the intersection of column and row. Each cell can contain text,a number or a formulae and named by its position in row and column. ROWS: Rows are cells that runs horizontally and identified by numbers.1st as 1 2nd as 2 There are 16,834 rows. Columns: Columns are vertical cells.The first is A,Second is B..So on. There are 256th columns in a work sheet.

WORK SHEET AND WORK BOOK


Workbook: A workbook is a collection of worksheets saved under one file name. A workbook can be made up of one worksheet or multiple worksheets. Worksheet: A worksheet is an individual page, or spreadsheet, inside the workbook . Cell reference: The combination of the column letter with the row number for a cell.

Formulas
Click the cell you would like to add a formula to One common use for formulas includes keeping a running total of numbers in a column. Type an equal sign first, followed by the formula you want to calculate. you can add numbers using the formula "=sum( )" where the cells that need to be added are listed inside the parenthesis and separated by commas. The formula "=sum(A1,A2)" would add together cells A1 and A2.

Excels arithmetic operators

Math and Statistical functions

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