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This document discusses advanced spreadsheet skills, including electronic spreadsheets, formulas, and common error values. It defines an electronic spreadsheet as a collection of text and numbers laid out in a rectangular grid that is commonly used for tasks like budgeting and decision making. Formulas, which always begin with an equal sign, perform operations on worksheet data. The document lists several common error values that can occur from faulty formulas, such as #DIV/0! for division by zero, ##### for columns not being wide enough, and #NAME? when a formula refers to a nonexistent range name.

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This document discusses advanced spreadsheet skills, including electronic spreadsheets, formulas, and common error values. It defines an electronic spreadsheet as a collection of text and numbers laid out in a rectangular grid that is commonly used for tasks like budgeting and decision making. Formulas, which always begin with an equal sign, perform operations on worksheet data. The document lists several common error values that can occur from faulty formulas, such as #DIV/0! for division by zero, ##### for columns not being wide enough, and #NAME? when a formula refers to a nonexistent range name.

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Good

Morning
Everyone!
Lesson 4. Advanced
Spreadsheet Skills
4.1 Electronic Spreadsheet
According to emerald.com electronic spreadsheet is
probably the most useful general-purpose software for the
microcomputer user.

Electronic spreadsheet refers to a collection of text and


numbers laid out in a rectangular grid. It is an application
program commonly used for budgeting, inventory
management, decision making, forecasting and other finance-
related tasks.
It`s a spreadsheet program, data and formulas
used to calculate those data are entered into
ledge-like forms (Spreadsheets or
Worksheets) for analysis, tracking, planning, or
“what-if” evaluations of the impact of real or
proposed changes on an economic strategy.
A great free alternative spreadsheet program
is LibreOffice Calc, and OpenOffice
spreadsheet program.
4.1.1 Arithmetic operation
ARITHMETIC OPERATION EXAMPLE
OPERATORS
/SYMBOLS
+ (Plus Sign) Addition =A1+A2
- (Minus Sign) Subtraction =A1-A2
* (Asterisk) Multiplication =A1*A2
/ (Forward Slash) Division =A1/A2
^ (Exponentiation) Raises a no. to a =3^2
power
- (Negation) Negative -11
% (Percent Sign) Percentage =90%
4.1.2. Formula

• Formula is an equation that performs


operation on worksheet data. A formula in
Microsoft Excel always begins with an
equal sign (=).
Common Error Values That You Can Encounter from Faulty Formulas

1.#DIV/0! - appears when entering a formula that performs explicit


division byzero (0), using a reference to a blank cell or to a cell that
contains zero as the divisor in a formula or function that performs
division or running a macro that uses a function or a formula that
returns the #DIV/0! error.

2.##### - appears when the column is not wide enough to display the
contentand/or dates and times are negative numbers. The solution is
to increase thecolumn width.
3.#NAME?- Appears when the formula refers to a range name that
doesn'texist in the worksheet. This error value appears when you type
the wrongrange name or fail to enclose in quotation marks some text
used in theformula, causing Excel to think that the text refers to a
range name.

4.#N/A – appears when


a. an inappropriate value was given for the lookup_valueargument in
the HLOOKUP, LOOKUP, MATCH, or VLOOKUPworksheet
function,
b. the VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, or MATCH worksheet function
wasused to locate a value in an unsorted table,
c. an array formula (array formula: A formula that performsmultiple
calculations on one or more sets of values, and thenreturns either a
single result or multiple results. Array formulasare enclosed between
braces { } and are entered by pressingCTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.) is
using an argument that is not thesame number of rows or columns as
the range that containsthe array formula,
d. one or more required arguments were omitted from a built-in
orcustom worksheet function,
e. a custom worksheet function that you use is not available and
f. a macro that you run enters a function that returns #N/A.
5.#NULL! -Appears most often when you insert a space (where you
should have used a comma) to separate cell references used as arguments
for functions.

6.#NUM!- Appears when Excel encounters a problem with a number in


theformula, such as the wrong type of argument in an Excel function or
acalculation that produces a number too large or too small to be
representedin the worksheet.

7.#REF! -Appears when Excel encounters an invalid cell reference, such


aswhen you delete a cell referred to in a formula or paste cells over the
cellsreferred to in a formula.
8.#VALUE! Appears when you use the wrong type of argument or
operator ina function, or when you call for a mathematical operation
that refers to cellsthat contain text entries. For example, the formula
=A1+B1, where A1contains the string "Hello" and B1 contains the
number 3, returns the#VALUE! error.
Thank You!

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