LESSON 4. Microsoft Excel
LESSON 4. Microsoft Excel
EXCEL
At the end of the lesson, the students
should be able to:
1. Familiarize with the different components
of MS Excel;
2. Use several conditional functions available
in MS Excel;
•There are a number of spreadsheet programs but from
all of them, MS Excel is most widely used.
•People have been using it for the past 30 years and
throughout these years, it has been upgraded with more
features.
•The best part of Excel is that it can apply to many
business tasks, including statistics, finance, data
management, forecasting, analysis, inventory, billing,
and business intelligence.
•Three most important components of Excel:
1. WORKBOOK – A workbook is a separate file just like
every other application has. One workbook contains one or
more worksheets.
2. WORKSHEET – A worksheet is made up of individual
cells which contain value, a formula, or text.
3. CELL – A cell is a smallest but most powerful part of a
spreadsheet. You can enter your data into a cell either by
typing or by copy-paste.
KEY TERMS
•Accounting Number Format – a 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
KEY TERMS
•Sum – a function used to compute for the
summation of the number of a range
•Average – a function used to compute for the
average of a number of a range
•COUNTIF – a function used to count the cells
with a specified content within a range
KEY TERMS
•SUMIF – a function used to compute for the
summation of a range if a certain condition is met
•AVERAGEIF – a function used to compute for
the average of a range if a certain condition is met
•Range – the range of cells where you want to
look for a criteria
KEY TERMS
•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