Introducing Microsoft Excel

Hello everybody. Today I'll be talking about the second Microsoft Office applications that has the second-most uses at school, office or at home, which is Microsoft Excel. If Microsoft Word is a word processor that lets the user do business letters, take notes,... then Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software that lets user create tables, solve mathematical and statistical equations, create graph based on a specific set of data, etc.

Microsoft Excel has all the characteristics of a spreadsheet. It features a grid of cells that are listed by lettered columns and numbered rows. These rows and columns can contain any types of data, such as letters, numbers, currency, decimals, date, time, etc. Alternately, the user an also do calculation using the information put in and Excel's built-in functions, such as calculating the sum of a set of number, multiplication, subtraction, division, finding a maximum and/or minimum value, and so many more. On the other hand, Excel features visualization to the data by having a Graphing function that would create a bar chart, a pie chart, a column chart, a scattered chart,...

An overview of Microsoft Excel

Examples of Microsoft Excel functions:

Adding, Subtracting, Multiplication, Division:

Creating graphs:

With Excel you will be able to do this

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In conclusion, similarly to Microsoft Word, Excel has its own set of functions that can be used under many different perspective and served different needs. Again, there are lots of other functions that you can do on Excel besides those that I've just listed, but I'll leave that for you to discover. Thank you.

Sources:

Office, M. (2013). Available Chart Types. Retrieved from Microsoft Office: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/available-chart-types-HA001034607.aspx