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Quarter 1 – Module 8: Working with Worksheets in Microsoft Excel 2016.
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Quarter 1
Self-Learning Module 8
Working With Worksheets in
Microsoft Excel 2016
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to Internet Computing Fundamentals III Module on Working with
Worksheets in Microsoft Excel 2016.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the learner:

Welcome to the Internet Computing Fundamentals III Lesson 3.2 Working

with Worksheets in Microsoft Excel 2016.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Post-test - This measures how much you have learned from

the entire module.
 EXPECTATION
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

A. Identify the different worksheets management techniques;

B. Manipulate the commands involved in worksheet management ; and
C. Initiate the willingness to participate in the assigned hands-on activity.

PRETEST

Directions: Write the missing word/s for the following sentences below. Choose
the best answer from the box.

1. There are ____________ ways on how you can insert a worksheet.

2. To ________ a worksheet means to duplicate it.
3. To _____________ a worksheet means to relocate it within the workbook or to
another workbook.
4. The worksheet name is up to________ characters only.
5. You can move the worksheet to any position within the worksheet tab thru
_____________.

dragging thirty-one three move copy

RECAP
True or False
Directions: Encircle T if the statement is correct and F if the statement is wrong.

T F 1. You cannot split merged cells.

T F 2. Only the data in the upper-left cell will be retained when you
merged two adjacent cells.
T F 3. You can merge cells that are inside an Excel table.

T F 4. You cannot sort a range of data that includes merged cells.

T F 5. Sorting data in selected cells requires all cells to be the same size.
 LESSON

Working With worksheets in Microsoft Excel 2016

Since a workbook contains several worksheets, users should be able to get

familiarize themselves with the different techniques on how to manipulate and
manage them efficiently and effectively. Let us now get acquainted with the
worksheet tab menus:

Creating/Inserting a worksheet:

There are three ways on how you can insert a worksheet:

1. By clicking the New Sheet Button on the Worksheet Tabs.

2. By right-clicking any worksheet tab and selecting Insert (Figure 1) on the menu
that appears to display the INSERT DIALOG BOX (Figure 2). On the dialog box,
select WORKSHEET.
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3. By using the Home Tab>Cells Group>Insert Drop-Down Button>Insert Sheet.

Two Ways on How to Delete a Worksheet:

- Click the worksheet that you want to delete.

1. Right – click the mouse and on the menu that appears, click Delete.

Or

2. Use the Home Tab>Cells Group>Delete Drop-Down Button>Delete Sheet.

Renaming a Worksheet:

Before renaming a worksheet, these are the rules that you should be able to follow:

1. A worksheet name must be unique.

- No two worksheets should have the same name.

2. The word “history” in any cases is not allowed to be used as a name.

3. The worksheet name is up to 31 characters only.

4. Special characters are allowed except for the following: \ / ? * [ ] :

5. The apostrophe ( ‘ ) can only be used at the middle of a worksheet name.

Two ways to rename a worksheet:

- Click the worksheet that you want to rename.

A. First method:
1. Right – click the mouse and on the menu that appears, click Rename.

2. Type the worksheet name that you want to assign and click anywhere outside the
tab to finish it.

B. Second method:

1. Use the Home Tab>Cells Group>Format Drop-Down Button>Rename Sheet.

2. Follow step 2 on the first method of renaming a worksheet.

Ways to Move or Copy a Worksheet within a workbook:

1. Dragging to move the worksheet to a new location within the workbook:

1. 1.Click and drag the worksheet to any position within the worksheet tab.

1.2. Release the mouse.

2. Right-clicking
2.1. Right -click the worksheet that you want to move or copy.

2.2. On the menu that appears, click Move or Copy.

2.3. On the dialog box that appears, click on the Before sheet list the new position
of your worksheet.

Reminder:

Click this checkbox if

you want to create a
copy in your selected
position. Leaving this
box unchecked,
means that you want
to move only the
worksheet to a new
position.

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Take note that when we say

COPY, you are duplicating the
worksheet MOVE means you
are transferring the position of
the worksheet.

2.4. Click the Ok button.

To move a worksheet to a new or another workbook:

1. Right - click the worksheet that you want to move or copy.

Reminder: Make sure that the other workbook file that you want to transfer the
worksheet is opened; otherwise it will be transferred to a new workbook.

2. On the menu that appears, click Move or Copy.

3. On the dialog box that appears, click on the dropdown arrow of To Book to display
the currently opened workbooks where you will be choosing to transfer the
worksheet.

Drop-down arrow

4. Click the checkbox Create a Copy if you want a copy of it in your chosen workbook
before clicking the Ok button. Otherwise, just click the Ok button if you want to
move it to your chosen workbook.

To Hide a Worksheet:

1. Right-click the worksheet that you want to hide.

2. On the menu that appears, click Hide.

To unhide a Worksheet:

1. Right-click in any worksheet tab to display the Worksheet Tab Menu.

2. Click Unhide to display the Unhide Dialog Box, where all the hidden worksheets
are listed:

3. Select the worksheet that you want to unhide and click the Ok button.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Show that you learned something by doing this hand-on activity.

Directions: Make your own short video, demonstrating any two of the following
worksheet management tasks:
1. Inserting a worksheet
2. Deleting a worksheet
3. Moving or copying a worksheet
4. Renaming a worksheet
5. Hide/Unhide a worksheet

Your video will be rated according to the scoring rubric below:

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Highest Possible Score

Clear Video Display 5
Audibility 5
Effort and Time Management 5
Presentation(Correctness of the 20
Demonstration)
Highest Total Score for the Activity 35

Activity 2
WORD HUNT
 Check the words
that you were able
to find :
____INSERT
____COPY

____MOVE

____DELETE
____RENAME

____HIDE

____UNHIDE

WRAP–UP

Aha! And Huh!

Write down 2 “aha” (something you learned):

1. ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________.
2. ______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________.

Write down 1 or 2 “huh” (things you still have questions about):

1. ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________.
2. ______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________.

VALUING
Working with worksheets in Microsoft Excel entails worksheet management
techniques. What are the benefits of having skills in organizing worksheets within a
workbook?
_________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

POST TEST
Directions: Unjumbled the word/s on the first column to identify what is being
described in the second column. Write your answer in the third column.

Jumbled Letters Description Your Answer

This refers to holding the left
GGDANRIG mouse button without releasing
while moving the mouse.
A command for transferring a
MEOV worksheet to a new location.

OYCP It means to duplicate a

worksheet.
A term used to denote pressing
NCKGCLII
the left mouse button.
A reserved word which is not
YHITORS allowed to be used as a
worksheet name.
 WRAP-UP VALUING POST-TEST
1. DRAGGING
2. MOVE
3. COPY
Answers may vary. Answers may vary. 4. CLICKING
5. HISTORY
Activity 2
PRE-TEST RECAP ACTIVITY 1
1. three 1. F The learners will be graded
2. copy 2. T using the performance rubric
3. move 3. F
4. thirty-one 4. T
5. dragging 5. T
KEY TO CORRECTION
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