A dummies guide to Excel

Microsoft Excel 2007

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program

It is used to store, organize, and manipulate data

Microsoft Excel’s layout is a rectangulargrid (as shown in the image)

Microsoft Excel begins with 3 worksheets – these worksheets can each store a rectangular grid of data – extra sheets can be added (sheets shown in the image)

The Basics - What is it?

The Basics - Video

Microsoft Excel has a toolbar also known as a “ribbon” which has different tabs.

These tabs have different tools available.

The tabs are:◦ Home◦ Insert◦ Page Layout◦ Formulas◦ Data◦ Review◦ View

The Basics – The Ribbon

The home tab

The insert tab

The page layout tab

The Tabs - 1

The formula tab

The data tab

The review tab

The Tabs - 2

The view tab

The Tabs - 3

Creating formulas in Excel may be confusing when beginning. Thissection will give you the basics in using formulas to add and subtract.

Creating Formulas

Creating a chart is simple once you get to know it.

It is a nice way to represent your data visually. The first step to creating your chart is to

ensure you have the data set in the correct way.

The image to the right shows a basic example of this.

I have 2 headings, Item and Price. I then have a list of 4 items and 4 prices.

I then select all that data by dragging the left mouse button (as mentioned in the first video).

And then I go to Insert -> Column (depending on what chart style you want) and then I chose a 2-D Column.

Creating a Chart

Creating a Chart - Continued

Any Questions?

Next: Please refer to the guide.