Claret College of Isabela: Information Technology Department
Claret College of Isabela: Information Technology Department
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Overview
A Excel spreadsheet can be understood as a collection of columns and rows that form a table.
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.
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ANALYSIS: Let’s
Analyze
TASK 2: What does the words “Excel” means as used in the instances given
above? Give at least three (3) words to articulate/describe your own definition of the words
““Excel” Write your answers inside the boxes provided.
What is Excel?
Excel is a spreadsheet program. A spreadsheet is a grid of rows and columns that helps organize, summarize, and calculate
data. Spreadsheets are an everyday part of many professions, including accounting, statistical analysis, and project
management. You can use Excel to create business forms, such as invoices and purchase orders, among many other useful
documents.
This class teaches Microsoft Excel basics. To begin, let’s open Microsoft Excel. You can do this by clicking on Start, All
Programs, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel. Let’s look at the toolbars. have just opened up a new workbook and have
not saved it with a name, the default title is Book1.
This is the Title Bar . It gives the name of the program and the title of the workbook you are using.
On the left side of the Title bar is the Quick Access Toolbar.
You can add or subtract commands to the toolbar by clicking on them in the dropdown list that comes up by clicking .
Under the Title Bar is the Ribbon. The Ribbon has eight Tabs that give instructions to the software. The Ribbon Tabs begin
with File and continue with Home, Insert, Page Layout, Formulas, Data, Review, and View. On the right-hand end, there is an
icon for the Help Menu, Minimize, Restore Down, and Close.
Clicking on one of these tabs will open the Group. The Group that belongs to each tab shows related
Command items together. You may then choose a Command.
• A number (and any associated punctuation, such as decimal points, commas, and currency symbols).
• Text (including any combination of letters, numbers, and symbols that aren't number-related).
• A formula, which is a math equation.
• A function, which is a named equation that shortcuts an otherwise complex operation.
Exercise 1
1. To change the location of a newly added worksheet, click once on the tab and hold down the left mouse button and
drag the worksheet to its new location.
2. It is also possible to change the name of each worksheet. Right-click on the Sheet 1 tab and left-click on Rename.
Once you click on Rename, the name of the sheet becomes highlighted and you can simply type in a new name.
Double-clicking on the tab will also enable you to type in a new name.
3. You can also change the color of the tabs by right-clicking on the tab and choosing Tab Color. Then simply choose a
color!!!
4. It is possible to change the magnification of a worksheet so that you can read it better. To do this, click on View and
then Zoom. Go ahead and try the different magnifications to see which works best for you. You can also make use of
the Zoom bar in the lower right-hand corner to zoom to a comfortable reading size.
• With the mouse: Drag across the desired cells with the left mouse button held down. Be careful when you're positioning
the mouse over the first cell (before pressing the mouse button). Position the pointer over the center of the cell, and not
over an edge. You’ll know you are in the right spot when your cursor looks like this:
If you drag while the pointer is on the edge of the cell, Excel interprets the selection as a move operation
and whatever is in the cell(s) is dragged to a different spot.
• With the keyboard: Select the first cell, and then hold down the Shift key while you press the arrow keys to expand the
selection area.
To select a nonrectangular or noncontiguous range, select the first portion of the range (that is, the first rectangular piece), and
then hold down the Ctrl key while you select additional cells/ranges with the mouse.
To select an entire column, click the column header (where the letter is). The cursor will be a vertical (for columns) or horizontal
(for rows) black arrow. To select an entire row, click the row header (where the number is). You can click one row or column and
then drag to select additional columns, or hold down Ctrl as you click on the headers for noncontiguous rows and/or columns.
Exercise 2
Let’s practice:
Exercise 3
1. Place the cursor in cell A1.
2. Type Jane. Tab to the next cell and type Smith.
3. Move the cursor back to cell A1.
4. Change Jane to Joe.
You can also edit information in a cell by double-clicking in a cell or by clicking in the formula bar. Try these two
options.
Exercise 4
To insert a column or row:
1. Right click on the column on the right of the two columns between which you wish to insert. (For example, if you wish to
insert a column between E and F, right click on F.) If you wish to insert a row, right click on the row’s number that is the one
below where you wish to insert. (For example, if you wish to insert a row between 3 and 4, right click on 4.)
2. When the menu comes up, select Insert from the menu.
Appearing to the left of your highlighted column or above your highlighted row will be a new row or column.
Column Width: The formatting that is unique to columns is Column Width. Column Width is measured in characters. A column's
width can be from 0 to 255 characters, which is a really wide column! Decimal values are allowed. In fact, the default size is 8.43
characters.
A width of 12, for example, means the column is wide enough for 12 average characters, using whatever you chose as the
Standard font. The default is Calibri 11 pts. (To change the font from the default, go to Tools Options-General-Standard font).
Column Width
Be careful when you set a column's width with AutoFit. The column may wind up wider than you expected. Any text will be on a
single line in its cell. No matter how long the text is! If you accidentally find you've widened a cell out of sight to the right, use
Undo. Then resize the column with another method.
Dragging is a natural method of adjusting column width. But since you can't see the change until you release the mouse button,
it may take you several attempts to get a satisfactory width.
Exercise 6
1. Type in New Zealand in B1. Move the pointer to the right edge of column heading B.
2. When the pointer changes to (the Resize Column shape), click and drag to the right until New Zealand shows
entirely. Since the column is not resized until you release the mouse button, you may need several tries to get the width
right.
Row Height
The only unique formatting for rows is Row Height. Row Height is measured in points, like font size, from 0 to 409 points. A row
height of zero hides the row.
The default setting for Row Height is AutoFit. The row height adjusts to the largest font size in the row.
AutoFit will leave a little white space, called the cell padding, between the text in the cell and the cell edges. When Calibri 11 pt.
is the Standard Font, the Row Height is 15.00 points. Keep in mind that you can always print without the gridlines, which may
make it look a little less crowded. That option is under Page Layout, in the Sheet Options section.
When you enter text that is too long to fit in a cell into a cell, it overlaps the next cell. If you do not want it to overlap the next cell
you can wrap the text.
Exercise 7
1. Open another new sheet.
2. Move to cell A1.
3. Type “Text too long to fit”. (After typing, click out of the cell and back in again.)
4. From the Ribbon, choose Home >Alignment > Wrap Text.
5. You will notice after you click Wrap Text, it is highlighted.
Merging Cells
Sometimes, rather than having text wrap in a cell, you will actually want the text to run across the width of the data. Usually
when making a spreadsheet, you need to create a heading for the sheet. This heading should run across the width of your data.
To do this, one must merge the cells across the width of the data. Select the range of cells, and click the Merge and Center
button under Alignment group. The heading is now centered over the data.
On the Ribbon, make sure the Home tab is selected. In the Number Group box, there are several buttons which allow one-click
formatting.
From the dropdown box, you have several options – currency, percentage, date, and time and more.
There are also buttons to increase decimal values, add a comma, or put in percentage.
You can also format the cell by right clicking on the cell(s) and selecting the “Format Cells.” If the “Number” tab isn’t already
selected, do so, and then select from the menu for currency, time, fraction, etc. Depending on the option you choose, you will be
given further options to the right.
Exercise 8
1. Move the cursor to cell D1.
2. Type 123456. Hit enter and then move back into D1. At this point it is
necessary to move out of the cell and then back in, as that is the only way to
get the appropriate menu up!
3. Right click on the number. A menu will pop up. Click on Format Cells.
4. Click on “Number” tab at top, if necessary.
5. Select “Currency” under Category and be sure that Decimal Places
is set to 2.
6. Click OK, and view the cell.
COMPUTER 4 (MS Excel) Page 7
It should look like the following:
1. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, select Clear > Clear Formats
2. To clear both contents and formats at once, select Clear All.
In contrast, deleting the cell removes the cell itself from the stack and makes the surrounding cells shift. Think about what
happens when you pull a box out of a stack of boxes -- the boxes above it fall down one position, right? It's the same thing with
Excel cells, except it's reverse-gravity (cells fall up rather than down), and you have the choice of making the remaining cells
shift up or to the left. Let’s look at how this works.
You can use Microsoft Excel to fill cells automatically with a series. For example, you can have Excel automatically fill in times,
the days of the week or months of the year, years, and other types of series. Days of the week and months of the year fill in a
similar fashion.
Exercise 9
1. Let’s move to another worksheet.
2. In cell A1, type Sunday and click the B for bold in the Font group.
3. Find the small black backward “L” in the lower right corner of the highlighted area. When you hover over this backward
“L,” the cursor will become a black “+.” This is called the Fill Handle.
4. Grab the Fill Handle and drag with your mouse to fill cell A1 to G1. Note how the days of the week fill the cells in a
series. Also, note that the Auto Fill Options icon appears.
Filling in Numbers
Exercise 11
1. Click on another worksheet. Type a 1 in cell A1.
2. Grab the Fill Handle and drag with your mouse to highlight cells A1 to A7. The number 1 fills each cell.
3. Click the Auto Fill Options icon.
4. Choose the Fill Series radio button. The cells fill as a series starting with 1, 2, 3.
1. Go to cell A1.
2. Type Lesson 1.
3. Grab the Fill Handle and drag with your mouse to highlight cells A1 to A6.
4. The cells fill in as a series: Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, and so on.
• =2+6: This formula is strictly math. If you place this formula in a cell, the cell displays 8.
• =A1+6: Same as the preceding, but this time you're adding 6 to whichever value is in cell A1 and displaying the result
in the cell into which you enter this formula. This formula does not change A1's contents.
• =A1+A2: Same thing again, but you're adding the contents of cell A1 to the contents of cell A2.
• =A1+A2-A3: In this example, multiple cells are referenced.
Here are the symbols you can use in formulas to indicate mathematical operations:
• +: Addition
• -: Subtraction
• *: Multiplication
• /: Division
Exercise 12
To try a basic formula, do the following:
Exercise 13
1. Type in the numbers 5, 7, 3, 9, 4, 8 in column C.
2. Move your cursor to select C7. Click the AutoSum button found on the Ribbon under Home > Editing.
3. C1 to C6 should now be highlighted.
4. Press Enter. Cells C1 through C6 are added together.
You can also write a formula to sum a column by typing in:
=sum(c1:c6) Note that there is no space between sum and the parenthesis.
Exercise 14
Now let’s create the following formula:
***In cell A5, create a formula that adds A1+A2+A3+A4.
Preparing to Print
Let’s prepare to print! If your worksheet is more than one printed page, it is possible to have the heading on each page by going
to the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group and click Print Titles.
You can also click the Collapse Dialog button at the right
end of the Rows to repeat at top and Columns to repeat at
left boxes, and then select the title rows or columns that you
want to repeat in the worksheet. After you finish selecting
the title rows or columns, click the Collapse Dialog button
again to return to the dialog box.
Click the Print button to print your document. Clicking the File tab displays the
Backstage This dropdown shows area view.
the currently selected printer. Clicking the
dropdown will display These dropdown
menus show currently.
Click the Print tab to print selected Settings. Rather than just document, change
print- showing you the name of a feature, related settings, and to these
dropdown menus show you what automatically display a the status of a
feature is and describes preview of your document. it. This can help you figure
out if you want to change the setting from what you have.
Make sure you take a look at the Preview Pane to assure that all of your columns
and rows are showing. If all looks well, it’s now time to print!
Click and drag to highlight multiple Click and drag with this
cells with this cursor, or click in a cursor to fill cell contents into
cell to select the single cell cells below or to the right.
• Not putting in all the required arguments: If a function is expecting more arguments than you have entered, and you get
a dialog box, be sure you've placed commas between the arguments and that you haven't overlooked any.
• Circular references: If you refer to the cell's own address in a function, you create a circular error, which is like an
endless loop. Suppose that you enter =A1+1 into cell A1. You'll get an error message like the one below. If you click
OK at this message, a Help window appears to help you find the problem.
• Text in an argument: Most functions require numeric arguments. If you enter text as an argument, for example,
=SUM(text), the word #NAME? appears in the cell. This happens because Excel allows you to name ranges of cells
using text, so technically =SUM(text) isn't an invalid function. It is invalid only if there's no range that has been assigned
the name "text."
• Hash marks (###) in a cell: This happens when the cell isn't wide enough to display its value. Widen the column to fix
this.
If you receive an error when copying a formula, don't panic; it happens to everyone. Use the skills you learned earlier in this
chapter to display the formulas and then check them for the common errors discussed here.
Instructions:
1. Create a formula that will compute the Sales Rep Total Sales shown below.
2. Write the formula on the space provided.
1. How are you going to create a new workbook and new worksheet in Excel?
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COMPUTER 2
PRELIM HANDS-ON EXAMINATION
Hands-On 1
1. Create a new file and enter the data on the worksheet below.
Hands-On 2
1. Create a new file and enter the data on the worksheet below.
2. Compute the Total Account.
3. Compute the differences
4. Save your file as PRELIMEXAM2_FULLNAME.
5. Write your formula on the space provided.
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