Microsoft Excel

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 Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. That means it's used to create grids
of text, numbers and formulas specifying calculations. That's extremely valuable
for many businesses, which use it to record expenditures and income, plan
budgets, chart data and succinctly present fiscal results.
 MS Excel: Sheets. In Microsoft Excel, a sheet is often called a worksheet. A
sheet is a single page that contains its own collection of cells to help you
organize your data.

 A cell is the intersection between a row and a column on a spreadsheet that

starts with cell A1. In the following example, a highlighted cell is shown in a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. ... Each cell in a spreadsheet can contain any
value that can be called using a relative cell reference or called upon using a
formula.

 The row is an order in which people, objects or figures are placed alongside or in
a straight line. A vertical division of facts, figures or any other details based on
category is called column. Rows go across, i.e. from left to right. On the
contrary, Columns are arranged from up to down.
 For MS Excel 2010, Row numbers ranges from 1 to 1048576; in total 1048576
rows, and Columns ranges from A to XFD; in total 16384 columns.

 In Microsoft Excel, a workbook is a collection of one or more spreadsheets, also

called worksheets, in a single file. Below is an example of a spreadsheet called
"Sheet1" in an Excel workbook file called "Book1." Our example also has the
"Sheet2" and "Sheet3" sheet tabs, which are also part of the same workbook.

 A cell reference, or cell address, is an alphanumeric value used to identify a

specific cell in a spreadsheet. Each cell reference contains one or more letters
followed by a number. The letter or letters identify the column and the number
represents the row

 Cell address is the specification of a cell. For example:If row 3 is intersected by

a column F, then the cell formed is referred as F3. Answer: A "cell address" is
an "alphanumeric value" used to "identify" a "specific cell" in a spreadsheet.

 A group of cells is known as a cell range. Rather than a single cell address, you
will refer to a cell range using the cell addresses of the first and last cells in the
cell range, separated by a colon. For example, a cell range that included cells
A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5 would be written as A1:A5.

 A formula is an expression which calculates the value of a cell. Functions are

predefined formulas and are already available in Excel.

 MS Excel: Charts. In Microsoft Excel, a chart is often called a graph. ... A chart
is a powerful tool that allows you to visually display data in a variety of different
chart formats such as Bar, Column, Pie, Line, Area, Doughnut, Scatter, Surface,
or Radar charts. With Excel, it is easy to create a chart.

 Merge and Center in Excel – Merge cell is a function in database programming

that enables different nearby cells to be joined into a single larger cell. This is
finished by choosing all cells to be merged and picking the “Merge Cells” order.
Center means that it enables the alignment of text to be in the center.
 Wrap Text – Make all content visible within a cell by displaying it on multiple line.

 Conditional formatting is a feature in many spreadsheet applications that

allows you to apply specific formatting to cells that meet certain criteria. It is
most often used as color-based formatting to highlight, emphasize, or
differentiate among data and information stored in a spreadsheet.

 Sorting allows you to organize data based on some criteria, usually

alphabetically (A-Z or Z-A) or numerically (lowest to highest or highest to lowest).
It's easiest to learn with an example! Here is a step-by-step example of how to
sort a data table column (list) in Excel. Here is our example data set.

 The basic Excel filter (also known as the Excel Autofilter) allows you to view
specific rows in an Excel spreadsheet, while hiding the other rows. When the
Excel autofilter is added to the header row of a spreadsheet, a drop-down menu
appears in each cell of the header row.

 Text to Columns is an amazing feature in Excel that deserves a lot more credit
than it usually gets. As it's name suggests, it is used to split the text into multiple
columns. For example, if you have a first name and last name in the same cell,
you can use this to quickly split these into two different cells.

 When you use the Remove Duplicates feature, the duplicate data will be
permanently deleted. Before you delete the duplicates, it's a good idea to copy
the original data to another worksheet so you don't accidentally lose any
information. Select the range of cells that has duplicate values you want to
remove.

 Introduction. Data validation is a feature in Excel used to control what a user can enter
into a cell. For example, you could use data validation to make sure a value is a
number between 1 and 6, make sure a date occurs in the next 30 days, or make sure a
text entry is less than 25 characters.

 Data Consolidation allows you to gather together your data from separate worksheets
into a master worksheet. In other words, the Data Consolidation function takes data
from a series of worksheets or workbooks and summaries it into a single worksheet that
you can update easily.

 What-If Analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to see how those
changes will affect the outcome of formulas on the worksheet. Three kinds of What-If
Analysis tools come with Excel: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables. Scenarios and
Data tables take sets of input values and determine possible results.

 Group (Shift+Alt+Right) - Tie a range of cells together so that they can be collapsed or
expanded.
 Ungroup (Shift+Alt+Left) – a range of cells that were previously grouped.

 Excel SUBTOTAL Function. The Excel SUBTOTAL function returns an aggregate

result for supplied values. SUBTOTAL can return a SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MAX,
and others (see table below), and SUBTOTAL function can either include or exclude
values in hidden rows.

 When you protect a worksheet, Excel locks all of the cells from editing. Protecting
your worksheet means that no one can edit, reformat, or delete the content. Click on the
“Review” tab on the main Excel ribbon. Click “Protect Sheet.” Enter the password you
would like to use to unlock the sheet in the future.

 Workbook protection forbids other users to add, move, rename or delete worksheets
and defends against viewing hidden worksheets or hiding worksheets. To protect Excel
workbook elements, follow these steps: 1. On the Review tab, in the Changes group,
click Protect Workbook.

 If you need to sum a column or row of numbers, let Excel do the math for you. Select a
cell next to the numbers you want to sum, click AutoSum on the Home tab, press Enter,
and you're done. When you click AutoSum, Excel automatically enters a formula (that
uses the SUM function) to sum the numbers.

 The Microsoft Excel AVERAGE function returns the average (arithmetic mean)
of the numbers provided. The AVERAGE function is a built-in function in Excel
that is categorized as a Statistical Function. It can be used as a worksheet
function (WS) in Excel.

 Description. The Microsoft Excel MAX function returns the largest value from
the numbers provided. The MAX function is a built-in function in Excel that is
categorized as a Statistical Function. It can be used as a worksheet function
(WS) in Excel.

 Description. The Microsoft Excel MIN function returns the smallest value from
the numbers provided. The MIN function is a built-in function in Excel that is
categorized as a Statistical Function.

 The Microsoft Excel IF function returns one value if the condition is TRUE, or
another value if the condition is FALSE. The IF function is a built-in function in
Excel that is categorized as a Logical Function. ... As a worksheet function, the
IF function can be entered as part of a formula in a cell of a worksheet.

 The Excel ROUND function returns a number rounded to a given number of

digits. The ROUND function can round to the right or left of the decimal point.
Round a number to a given number of digits. A rounded number. =ROUND
(number, num_digits)

 Excel COUNTIF function is used for counting cells within a specified range that
meet a certain criterion, or condition. For example, you can write a COUNTIF
formula to find out how many cells in your worksheet contain a number greater
than or less than the number you specify.
 The Excel AND function is a logical function used to require more than one
condition at the same time. AND returns either TRUE or FALSE. To test if a
number in A1 is greater than zero and less than 10, use =AND(A1>0,A1<10). ...
logical1 - The first condition or logical value to evaluate.

 A pivot table is a data summarization tool that is used in the context of data
processing. Pivot tables are used to summarize, sort, reorganize, group, count,
total or average data stored in a database. It allows its users to transform
columns into rows and rows into columns. It allows grouping by any data field.

 The Microsoft Excel COUNT function counts the number of cells that contain
numbers as well as the number of arguments that contain numbers. The COUNT
function is a built-in function in Excel that is categorized as a Statistical
Function. It can be used as a worksheet function (WS) in Excel.