Lesson 1

What is a Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application in the
Microsoft Office system. You can use Excel to create and
format workbooks (a collection of spread sheets) in order
to analyze data and make more informed business
decisions. Specifically, you can use Excel to track data,
build models for analyzing data, write formulas to
perform calculations on that data, pivot the data in
numerous way and present data in a variety of
professional looking charts.

Create a workbook
A workbook is a file that contains one or more
worksheets. Create a workbook to organize all
kinds of information.
1.

Select File > New.

2.

Select Blank workbook.

Create a workbook using a template

1.

Select File > New.

2.

Do one of the following:

Select a template from the available list

of templates, and then select Create.

From Suggested searches, select a

category (such as Business, Personal,
or Industry), select a template, and then
select Create.

Insert a worksheet
By default, Excel gives you one worksheet in a
workbook, but you can add more worksheets,
rename them, or delete them, as needed.
1.

Do one of the following:

On the Sheet tab, select

. A new
worksheet will be added to the right of the
current sheet.

Select Home > Insert > Insert Sheet.

Right-click a sheet, click Insert, and in

the Insert box, click Worksheet, and then
click OK.