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Microsoft Office Excelis

a type of general purpose application software

known as a spreadsheet.
A spreadsheet is a table consisting of cells (rows, column locations) and is used to
manipulate numeric data.

EXCEL TERMS
A row runs horizontally and is identified by a number.
A column runs vertically and is identified by a letter.
The intersection of a row and a column is referred to as a cell
Each cell in the spreadsheet can be identified by its cell address or cell reference.
The cell reference or address is simply the column and row position combined.
Example A1, B3.
A cell can contain one of three types of information: label (text), value
(number) or formulae.
A label can be used as a title or heading to describe an aspect of the
worksheet.
It can contain any string of characters (letters or numbers) but must only
start with a character that does not indicate a formula or number. There are
two types of labels
1. Text labels which are made up of letters only or any combination of letters,
numbers and/or symbols. In our example Products is a text label and the
contents listed in that column.
2. Numeric labels are numbers that are assigned the label prefix, apostrophe
(), to make them appear as labels. Example the year 2005 should be
inserted as 2005 to be identified by Excel as a label.

Labels default to the left of a cell.

A label cannot be used in a calculation

A value is a piece of data that can be used in a calculation. Values are the
contents of a cell.
Numeric values default to the right of the cell.
A formula is an instruction to perform operation on values.
All formulae (formulae is plural for formula) in Excel start with an equal sign
(=)
When a user opens Excel, the user is presented with a workbook which by
default contains three worksheets. ( sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, tabs seen to the

bottom of the workbook). These sheets allow the user to keep varied and large
amounts of information together in one workbook.