Basics of Ms Excel Lecture 1
Basics of Ms Excel Lecture 1
BY ZAMAN SAJID (Engineer) Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wah, Wah Cantt Lecture Number 1 12-12-2011
Processes in an industry are controlled with the help of Software. Engineers should be familiar with different software which is helpful for calculations of equations, design of equipments, process modeling and simulations, drawing of process equipments and for instrumentations and process control. Engineer becomes a good researcher if he/she knows how to use different research helpful software. Computer knowledge makes you more competitive in job market
SOFTWARE YOU SHOULD LEARN MS OFFICE MATLAB CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) LabVIEW POLYMATH E-Z SOLVER HYSYS/ASPEN MathCAD Genie
MS WORD
MS OUTLOOK
MS ONENOTE
MS PROJECT
MS WORD
MS OUTLOOK
MS ONENOTE
MS PROJECT
WHAT IS MS EXCEL
Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet. (tableur, a French word) It consists of rows and columns. It allows the user to organize the data. It is also used to perform mathematical calculations in a user friendly way.
APPLICATIONS OF MS EXCEL
MS Excel is used in Physics, Engineering, Statistic calculations, financial calculations and many more. For Chemical Engineers it finds its applications in wide areas for example in Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Partial Differential Equations', Thermodynamics, Numerical Methods, graphs formation, trend in the graphs, complex REPEATED engineering calculations
LEARNING OUTCOMES
This tutorial teaches Microsoft Excel basics. Although knowledge of how to navigate in a Windows environment is helpful, this tutorial is created for the computer novice. This lesson will introduce you to MS Excel window. You use the window to interact with Excel. To begin this lesson, start Microsoft Excel 2007. The Microsoft Excel window appears and your screen looks similar to the one shown next.
MS EXCEL
PARTS OF EXCEL
DESCRIPTION
Single Click will open a dropdown menu Double click will close the existing file but will ask you if you want to save the changes
Major use of MS Office Button is to open, save, print and close a file.
Opens a New blank sheet Opens an Already existed sheet in computer Next Slide
Provides Prints and Print previews Used for special documents properties e.g., password, Digital signatures Used for sending file as an email and/or internet fax For publication on internet Closes the file, ask to save the data, if newly written or edited
VS
Save Save as
Pressed when the file has already been given a name to save. (Ctrl and S) Same button is available in Quick Access Toolbar
Pressed when we want to save a New file OR Want to change the name or destination of any existing file.
Redo, Press Ctrl and Y, Works only when Undo has been used
THE RIBBON
We use commands to tell Microsoft Excel what to do. In Microsoft Excel 2007, you use the Ribbon to issue commands. The Ribbon is located near the top of the Excel window, below the Quick Access toolbar. At the top of the Ribbon are several tabs; clicking a tab displays several related command groups. Within each group are related command buttons.
THE RIBBON
We click buttons to issue commands or to access menus and dialog boxes. You may also find a dialog box launcher in the bottom-right corner of a group. When you click the dialog box launcher, a dialog box makes additional commands available.
CLIPBOARD
Cut the selection from the document and put it on the Clipboard Copy the selection and put it on the Clipboard
Format Painter: Copy formatting from one place and apply it to another Paste: Used to pasting only the values or formatting
FONT
Border of Cell To Bold Color the Cell To Italic To Underline text Font Color
ALIGNMENT
Increase/Decrease the margin between the border and the text in the cell
NUMBER
Choose how the values in a cell are displayed, %, $ Data Precision (Increase/Decrease the decimal)
Currency Sign
CELLS
Inserts Cells, Rows or Columns and Sheets Delete Cells, Rows or Columns and Sheets Format Adjusts Space for Row and Height
Format: The shape and size of a book, hence, its external form (face)
Orientation of Text/Numbers
EDITING
Custom Sort
To inset the filter into cells Used to Find, Replace, Go to a specific Cell