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Module 5: ADVANCED SPREADSHEET SKILLS

What is Spreadsheet?
Spreadsheet refers to the spreadsheet program which is the electronic version of the familiar columnar pad. It is an
application that helps the user to create spreadsheets commonly used for budgets, forecasting, and finance-related tasks.
Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. While you may believe Excel is
only used by certain people to process complicated data, anyone can learn how to take advantage of the program's powerful
features. Whether you're keeping a budget, organizing a training log, or creating an invoice, Excel makes it easy to work with different
types of data.
Advanced Spreadsheet Skills Needed in Life

1. Data Entry, Sorting, and Filtering 6. Pivot Tables


2. Applying Data Validation 7. Macros and Scripts
3. Protecting Sheets and Locking Cells 8. Combine Multiple Functions to Create Formulas
4. Custom Filtering 9. Perform Calculations
5. Sort by Column

In Excel, formulas are tools that you can use to edit, analyze, and create calculations for worksheet data. One of the most
valuable of this is the ability to store math formulas in individual cells.
A formula is simply a mathematical operation you can perform in your worksheet. It is a sequence of values, cell references,
names, functions and operators that are contained in a cell. The formula produces a new value from the existing value. A formula can
contain up to 1024 characters and must always start with an equal sign (=). It can add, subtract, multiply or divide two numbers,
displaying the answer in a cell that you choose. When you type a formula into a cell, Excel makes every attempt to display an answer
to the formula.
Using Math Operators
Excel always knows what type of calculations you want to perform. When you create a formula, you include symbols, called
math operators, which tell Excel the kind of math operations you want to perform.
Operator Description : Reference operator (as in B3:D6) , Argument separator - Negation (as in -4) % Percentage sign ^
Exponentiation * and / Multiplication and division + and - Addition and subtraction & Text concatenation (two strings combined) >,=,
<=, <> Comparison operators (greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to, not equal to)

Operator Description
: Reference operator (as in B3:D6)
, Argument separator
- Negation (as in -4)
% Percentage sign
^ Exponentiation
* and / Multiplication and division
+ and - Addition and subtraction
& Text concatenation (two strings combined)
>,=, <=, <> Comparison operators (greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to, not equal to)

When you enclose part of a formula within a pair of parentheses, Excel evaluates first the formula inside the parentheses
followed by the rest. The computer reads it from left-to-right flow calculation.
Spreadsheet Terminology
- Accounting Number Format – number format that is used for accounting
- Orientation – the angle at which a text is displayed.
- Count – a function used to count the cells with content in a range.
- SUM – a function used to compute for the summation of the numbers of a range.
- AVERAGE – a function used to compute for the average of the numbers in a range.
- COUNTIF – a function used to count the number of cells in a range if a certain condition is met.
- AVERAGEIF – a function used to compute for the average in a range if a certain condition is met.
- Range – the range of cells where you want to look for the criteria.
- Criteria – a value or label that determines if a cell is part of the range to be averaged.
- Average Range – the actual range of cells that will be averaged, if omitted, the range will be used instead.
- Relative Reference – All cell references are called relative references, when copied across multiple cells, they change based on the
relative position.
- Absolute Reference – These are cell references that do not change when copied or filled in keeping a row and/or column constant.

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