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Excel Project 1. Creating a Worksheet and an Embedded Chart. Introduction to Excel. Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows users to organize data, complete calculations, graph data, develop professional looking reports and more. Four main components of Excel.
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Excel Project 1 Creating a Worksheet and an Embedded Chart
Introduction to Excel • Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows users to organize data, complete calculations, graph data, develop professional looking reports and more
Four main components of Excel • Worksheets: Allow users to enter, calculate, manipulate, and analyze data (numbers and text). Worksheet means the same as Spreadsheet. • Charts: Excel can draw a variety of charts.
Four main components of Excel • Lists: Lists organize and store data. You can sort, search, and select data. • Web Support Allows users to save Excel worksheets in html format
How Excel Works • When Excel starts it creates a new blank workbook, called book1. The workbook is like a notebook. Inside the workbook are sheets, which are referred as worksheet. • The worksheet is organized into a rectangular grid.
Terminology • Column Heading: A column letter above the grid identifies each column • Row Heading: A row number on the left side of the grid identifies each row • Cell: is the basic unit of a worksheet. It is where a column and row meet. • Each worksheet in a workbook has 256 columns and 65536 rows
Terminology • Cell Reference: Identifies each cell uniquely. It is the letter from the column heading and the number from the row heading. • Active cell: the cell that you are currently in • Formula Bar: As you typed Excel displays the entry in the formula bar