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Unit 1

MS Excel
Chapter 8,9 (Wang, Dummies)
Chapter-18,19,21,22 (Step by Step)

25-08-2024 Aakriti Saini, Assistant Professor, Economics Dept. 1


Topics to be covered
• Each cell can contain any of the three items: number, text(labels),
formula.
• Shift+Enter: Select the cell above in the same column
• Shift+Tab: Select the cell to the left in the same row
• Formatting
• Printing, protecting, viewing
• Formulas and in-built functions
• Conditional Formatting
• Checking Errors, trace error

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Cell Reference
Single cell references such as =ROUND(C4,2), which rounds the number found in cell C4
to two decimal places
»»Contiguous (adjacent) cell ranges such as =SUM(A4:A9), which adds all the numbers
found in cells A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, and A9
»»Noncontiguous cell ranges such as =SUM(A4,B7,C11), which adds all the numbers
found in cells A4, B7, and C11
• Absolute/fixed form, $B$6.
• Mixed B$6.
• Relative B6

• The AutoSum command automatically creates cell references for the SUM function.
• Click the Formulas tab, and then click Show Formulas in the Formula Auditing group.
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Important Functions

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Printing Workbooks/Page Layout Tab
• Page Break Preview displays the boundaries of each page so you’ll
know what each page will display if you print it.
• Page Layout view displays your spreadsheet exactly as it will appear if
you print it. You can not only see where your page breaks occur but
also add headers to the top of your spreadsheet
• Insert tab, under text group, has header and footer option.
• Print area under name box.
• Object embedding
• Page Breaks

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Formatting
Under home tab in the Styles group
Excel offers three types of conditional formatting for identifying values,
as shown
»» Data bars: Higher values display more color while lower values display
less color.
»» Color scales: Different colors identify different ranges of values.
»» Icon sets: Different icons identify different ranges of values.

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Protecting sheet/Working with multiple
sheets/workbooks
• Lock cell, protect the sheet, format cell option
• All the cells are locked by default.
• Multisheet references
• =SUMIFS('Jan 2013'!$E:$E,'Jan 2013'!$C:$C,Summary!$B5)
Chapter-22
• Custom sort
• Create tables
• Insert and delete cells
• Go to Dialog Box (Ctrl+G) and then click on special for formulas

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Lock certain cells
• Select the entire worksheet, choose format cells
• All the cells are locked by default.
• Uncheck the locked option under protection tab of the dialog box.
• Select the cells you want to lock and then click on lock cells under
format cells option available on home tab.
• Go to Review tab and select protect sheet option
• How to Lock cells containing formulas.

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