2. INTRODUCTION
Excel forms part of the Microsoft Office suite of software.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet
developed by Microsoft for Windows,
macOS, Android and iOS. It features
calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables,
and a macro programming language
called Visual Basic for Applications.
3. Early history
Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called
Multiplan in 1982.
Multiplan became very popular on CP/M systems, but on MS-DOS
systems it lost popularity to Lotus 1-2-3.
Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Macintosh on
September 30, 1985, and the first Windows version was 2.05 (to
synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) in November 1987.
Lotus was slow to bring 1-2-3 to Windows and by the early 1990s,
Excel had started to outsell 1-2-3 and helped Microsoft achieve its
position as a leading PC software developer.
4. IMPORTANCE OF MS EXCEL
Easy Arithmetic Solutions
Various Formatting Options
Availability of Online Access
Graphing
Data Organization
Human Resource Planning
Programming
5. BASIC FEATURES
Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets
a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named
columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic
operations.
answer statistical, engineering, and financial needs.
display data as line graphs, histograms and charts
allow the user to employ a wide variety of numerical.
It also has a variety of interactive features
7. Basic Terms in Excel
1. Formulas
In Excel, a formula is an expression that operates on values in a range of cells
or a cell. For example, =A1+A2+A3, which finds the sum of the range of values
from cell A1 to cell A3.
There are two basic ways to perform calculations in Excel:
8. 2. Functions
Functions are predefined formulas in Excel. They eliminate laborious
manual entry of formulas while giving them human-friendly names.
For example: =SUM(A1:A3). The function sums all the values from A1 to
A3.
9. Functions
Excel 2016 has 484 functions. Of these, 360 existed prior to
Excel 2010. Microsoft classifies these functions in 14
categories. Of the 484 current functions, 386 may be called
from VBA as methods of the object "WorksheetFunction”
and 44 have the same names as VBA functions
10. OVERALL VIEW
Excel offers many user interface tweaks over the earliest
electronic spreadsheets
Excel became the first spreadsheet to allow the user to define the
appearance of spreadsheets.
It also introduced intelligent cell recomputation, where only
cells dependent on the cell being modified are updated
Excel introduced many important features.
Excel also introduced extensive graphing capabilities.