Introduction to Microsoft Excel 97

Vivien Hall CCS

Timetable

14:00 - 17:00 Break 15:30 - 15:45 Questions session 16:30 - 17:00

Aims

Basic skills to create a simple spreadsheet Do some simple calculations Chart the data NOT about mathematical or statistical

methods

About the workshop

Self paced with help from tutors Simple sales example - could be any

numeric data e.g student marks, expenses, results of

experiments/surveys

Workshop Material

Doc 5.68 Introduction to Excel 97 Additional material to take away - Doc 5.83

Working with Data in Microsoft Excel 97. Includes more advanced topics

About the material

See Doc 5.68 Introduction for conventions used

Need to do things in the order given Things to do are labelled ‘Practice’. Round

bullets indicate steps to do. Pointed bullets used to emphasise points

- not things to do.

Workshop Prerequisites

Use of mouse, keyboard & Windows desktop

Parts of a window Menus and dialogue boxes Opening & saving files Using Help

What is a spreadsheet?

Paper or electronic document Columns (down the page) labelled A, B,

etc. Rows (across the page) labelled 1, 2, etc. Intersection of row and column is a cell Cell address is column address followed by

row address e.g A1, C10

Introductory topics (Doc 5.68)

Enter data, edit it, format it, print it Perform calculations (need to know what

you want to do!) Text to label data Chart data

Working with Data (Doc 5.83)

Sort data Filter data Summarise data (pivot tables) Work with time series Copy tables into Microsoft Word 97

documents

Excel Window

Fig. 1 Page 3 in notes Similarities to Word 97, e.g menu bars, tool

bars, buttons, scroll bars New objects e.g

– Formula Bar– Cells, Row & Column labels– Worksheet tabs & Navigation Arrows