Microsoft excel document for Beginners

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. We use it to create reports that need calculations and charts.

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1. An Excel file is called a Workbook.  

- Default title is Book1

2. Ribbon broken into Tabs (Home, Insert, Page Layout…)

- Tabs broken into groups (Clipboard, Font, Alignment)

3. Name box (left) and formula bar (right)

- Name box shows address of current cell

- Formula bar shows contents of current cell

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4. Columns Headings are Lettered, Rows Headings are Numbered

- Columns of a building, rows of chairs

5. Worksheet navigation buttons, Worksheet tabs

- Sheet1

6. Status bar

- Excel behaves differently depending on the current "mode"

TABLES OF CONTENTS:

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1. Vocabulary
2. Status Bar Modes
3. Ribbon
4. Cells Structures
5. Fill Handle
6. Building an Equation
7. Exercise 1: Customers
8. Exercise 2: Quarter Total
9. Exercise 3: Items by Quarter

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