Excel Report
Excel Report
Feb 20,2023
INTRODUCTION
If you have ever managed a budget by using paper, pencil and calculator, you would know
the limitations:
Filling out ledger sheets
Calculating and recalculating totals
Redesigning sheets to add or delete columns and rows, and so on.
The beauty of Excel is its ability to simplify these tasks. Working with a paper spreadsheet
is complicated, time consuming and limited. If a portion of your row data changes, you
must erase and re-enter it, then you have to erase and recalculate derived data, such as
totals or averages that were affected by your changes. Excel can be used to make quick and
easy financial analysis, analyze data and create presentation with chats (graph utilities),
retrieve data from external data sources and use it in worksheets to calculate based on data
from multiple worksheets, create web page with ease, and run queries on data available on
the web.
What Is Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is a full-featured spreadsheet program that allows you to organize data,
complete calculations, make decisions, transform data to graph, and develop professional
looking reports.
Navigating/Selecting in the Worksheet
To move to a specific cell or range you can use the mouse, the menu, or the keyboard.
To select a single cell, place your cursor on the cell and click once (active cell).
To select multiple continuous cells first make one cell the active cell. Hold the left
mouse button and drag until all the desired cells are highlighted or select the first cell +
Shift/F8 + select the last cell.
To select an entire column/row or multiple columns/rows, select the column/row
heading(s).
. You can also use the keyboard navigation keys (4 arrows, Home, End, Page Up, Page
Down, and Tab).
Use the name box to specify the cell(s) and press Enter e.g. single cell A5, or range
(contiguous) or range (non-contiguous)A1:B12.
Cells
The intersection of a column and a row is a cell. The cell is the basic unit of the worksheet
and data is entered in cells. A cell is referred to by its unique address, or cell reference or
cell indicator, which is composed of the coordinates of the intersection of a column and a
row. To identify a cell, specify the column letter first, followed by the row number. For
example, cell reference D3 refers to the cell located at the intersection of column D and
row 3. The active cell has a heavy border surrounding the cell. In addition, the active cell is
listed in the reference area immediately above column A. range of cells is identified by
using A1:B14 i.e. cell A1 through B14.
Deleting Cells, Rows and Columns
Select the rows/columnsEditDelete
Saving a file
This is similar to that of Microsoft word. You should note that you cannot include any of
the following characters in a file name: forward slash (/), backslash (\), greater than sign
(>), less than sign.