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Understanding the Excel Interface
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Read off the grid reference from the active column and active row.
Check this with the location recorded in the Name Box.
Reset to 100% using Alt W J (press Alt first then W then J).
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Getting Familiar with the Excel Workbook and Worksheets
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2 Tab color
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Insert a shape and change its fill color using "Shape Format".
Note the addition of an extra context specific tab "Shape Format".
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1 Saving a file.
2 File Extension
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The options to Save and Save As can also be accessed respectively using
the ALT and letter keys.
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1 Confirming an entry.
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In tab "2.1b Data Type", type in exactly what you see in Column B,
in Column D. Column F will then show you what type of data that you
have entered in Column D.
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What you might type How Excel displays what you typed Type of Entry
any text number
=b6 number
12345 number
'1 number
!1 number
"1 number
£1 number
$1 number
^1 number
&1 number
%1 number
*2 number
(1 number
+1 number
=1 number
-1 number
,1 number
.1 number
1.00 number
0.00 number
'true number
=3/0 number
=3*bananas number
mar number
mar19 number
01/03/19 number
Note:- "Type of Entry" is deemed a
number if cell is empty.
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1 Relative Referencing
2 Absolute Referencing
3 Mixed Referencing
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If you want to understand how Excel does this refer to blue box in tab 2.2b.
View formula.
Observe.
View formula.
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Relative Referencing not making sense?
All references in this example are -2 to the left and -7 up
When you copy a Relative Reference (invisible to the use
1. Interprets the range reference to read how many cells
1 4 7 many cells down (-2,-7) before copying.
When you paste a Relative Reference (also invisible to th
2 5 8 2. Writes back to the cell how many cells across and how
3 6 9 before converting this back to a relative reference.
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
g not making sense?
s example are -2 to the left and -7 up.
elative Reference (invisible to the user), Excel:-
nge reference to read how many cells across and how
,-7) before copying.
elative Reference (also invisible to the user), Excel:-
he cell how many cells across and how many cells down
his back to a relative reference.
Formula
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Order of Operations
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1 Order of Operations
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Reminder
1. Parenthesis/Brackets
2. Exponents or exponentials eg. (x^2, or x to the power of something)
3. Multiplication/Division
4. Addition Subtraction
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Date Serial Numbers
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1 Relative Referencing
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Try typing the following in "2.5 Practice" staring with cell B2:-
In B2 type:- 01/01/1900
In B3 type:- 02/01/1900
In B4 type in whatever is today's date
In Cell B5 type:- 01 Oct 2019
In Cell B6 type:- 01 10 2019
In Cell B7 type:- October19
In Cell B8 type:- Oct19
In Cell B9 type:- 10/19
In Cell B10 type:- 10/29
In Cell B11 type:- 10/30
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What to type:- Date Serial Number Is it a number?
In B2 type:- 01/01/1900
In B3 type:- 02/01/1900
In B4 type in whatever is today's date
In Cell B5 type:- 01 Oct 2019
In Cell B6 type:- 01 10 2019
In Cell B7 type:- October19
In Cell B8 type:- Oct19
In Cell B9 type:- 10/19
In Cell B10 type:- 10/29
In Cell B11 type:- 10/30
Date
Copy and Drag
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3 Note
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Alternatively, if you move the mouse when you have the cross with 4
arrows, you will cut and paste.
With a strong keyboard preference and lacking dexterity with the mouse,
personally I prefer keyboard based shortcuts such as Ctrl + C and Ctrl + P.
So don't worry if you find this too fiddly.
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first_name last_name Q1 Sales Q2 Sales Q3 Sales Q4 Sales Total
Monika Greenly 3896 1739 4091 2997
Ellis Bleazard 2598 1798 3055 2845
Valera Antonich 1604 3090 2792 2827
Marney Alyukin 3899 2458 3620 3055
Joachim Simkiss 11997 2967 2194 2792
Huntington Poge 3055 3762 3550 3620
Flss Witchalls 2792 2601 1914 2194
Jerrilee McCritichie 3620 4257 3155 3504
Beret Jost 2194 2587 2629 2153
Kenny Eardley 1968 4220 2416 3186
Total
Rows & Columns, Select, Insert, Remove
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1 Selecting Columns
2 Selecting Rows
3 Inserting Columns
4 Removing columns
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Then Holding the Shift Key, experiment with right and left arrows.
When you use the ribbon, if you don't use the drop down box and
don't have entire rows/columns selected, Excel will shift cells rather
entire rows and columns which may or may be your intention.
Please experiment.
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Rows and Columns Insert/Delete
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5 Row Height
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As per columns.
In the home tab, click the down arrow below the ribbon and options will
appear for row and column size.
You can then select column width and type in a number.
With a double click when you see the bold cross with left and right
arrows, the column width will be optimised to make the cell with the
"widest" entry fully visible.
This functionality can also be accessed from the "Format" icon
drop down in the ribbon.
This functionality can also be accessed using the following keys
entered in sequence.
To optimise the column width for a selection of cells, just make a
selection of cells before entering the same keystrokes.
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Rows and Columns Hide and UnHide
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Hide rows.
Unhide rows.
Hide Columns.
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Rows and Columns Grouping and Ungrouping
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Please save file before this exercise, as creating/deleting and several other actions cannot be undone, withou
reverting to the last saved file.
2 Renaming worksheets
3 Selecting worksheets.
4 Deselecting worksheets
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To the right of the tabs, click on the + (with a circle around it).
Press/Hold the Shift key and left click 2 worksheets at least 2 apart.
Go to last Worksheet. Use Ctrl and the right arrow for last worksheet
or left arrow for first worksheet (found in bottom left corner).
Hold the Ctrl key down to deselect a worksheet and then select
any deselected worksheet to deselect all but the active worksheet.
Left click "3.3 Practice" and then experiment the various right click
options (please ignore "View Code" for now).
If you do happen to click on "View Code", just close it down with the
cross at the top right hand corner.
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Explore the "Formulas" tab in the ribbon to see some of the available
functions.
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first_namlast_namQ1 Sales Q2 Sales Q3 Sales Q4 Sales Total
Monika Greenly 3896 1739 4091 2997
Ellis Bleazard 2598 1798 3055 2845
Valera Antonich 1604 3090 2792 2827
Marney Alyukin 3899 2458 3620 3055
Joachim Simkiss 11997 2967 2194 2792
HuntingtonPoge 3055 3762 3550 3620
Flss Witchalls 2792 2601 1914 2194
Jerrilee McCritichi 3620 4257 3155 3504
Beret Jost 2194 2587 2629 2153
Kenny Eardley 1968 4220 2416 3186
Total 37623
Sum Function
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1 SUM Function
2 SUM Shortcut
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Ask yourself the question, what does Excel need to extract from the
arguments?
Excel needs to be able to extract values to SUM.
These values could be held directly in the function arguments, but to
leverage Excel's capabilities, you are probably going to put Ranges into
the arguments.
Which two places can we find the SUM function in the Ribbon?
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first_name last_name Q1 Sales Q2 Sales Q3 Sales Q4 Sales
Monika Greenly 3896 1739 4091 2997
Ellis Bleazard 2598 1798 3055 2845
Valera Antonich 1604 3090 2792 2827
Marney Alyukin 3899 2458 3620 3055
Joachim Simkiss 2045 2967 2194 2792
Huntington Poge 3055 3762 3550 3620
Flss Witchalls 2792 2601 1914 2194
Jerrilee McCritichie 3620 4257 3155 3504
Beret Jost 2194 2587 2629 2153
Kenny Eardley 1968 4220 2416 3186
Total 27671 29479 29416
=SUM(D2:D11)
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3 Fill Down
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Select the formula in cell H3 of "4.3 Practice". Using the right click
menu, Copy.
Right click to access Paste options. Select left most option below
"Paste Options".
Undo
In cell H4 use this shortcut to replicate the formula above. It’s similar
to copying an absolute reference but without having to use the $s
before column/cell references.
Undo
In cell H4 use this shortcut to replicate the formula above. This time
its copying the formula down relatively so the relative reference is
preserved.
Experiment with the other options shown in tab 3.1 Copy and drop.
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first_namlast_namQ1 Sales Q2 Sales Q3 Sales Q4 Sales Total
Monika Greenly 3896 1739 4091 2997 12723
Ellis Bleazard 2598 1798 3055 2845
Valera Antonich 1604 3090 2792 2827
Marney Alyukin 3899 2458 3620 3055
Joachim Simkiss 11997 2967 2194 2792
HuntingtonPoge 3055 3762 3550 3620
Flss Witchalls 2792 2601 1914 2194
Jerrilee McCritichi 3620 4257 3155 3504
Beret Jost 2194 2587 2629 2153
Kenny Eardley 1968 4220 2416 3186
Total
More Functions
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AutoSum can also be accessed from the Formula tab of the ribbon.
Type "=ROUND(3991,-3)"
Experiment with changing the -3 to -2 and -1.
The type "=ROUND(3991.725)" and try with positive whole numbers.
-1 rounds to 10's, -2 to hundreds, 1 rounds to 1 decimal place and so on.
You will notice the drop down that appears as you start to type.
If you don't want to type in the whole formula, you can use the up
down arrow keys to select. When the desired option is highlighted blue,
use the TAB key to accept and continue to setting up arguments which
are required in most functions.
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first_namlast_namQ1 Sales Q2 Sales Q3 Sales Q4 Sales Total
Monika Greenly 3896 1739 4091 2997
Ellis Bleazard 2598 1798 3055 2845
Valera Antonich 1604 3090 2792 2827
Marney Alyukin 3899 2458 3620 3055
Joachim Simkiss 11997 2967 2194 2792
HuntingtonPoge 3055 3762 3550 3620
Flss Witchalls 2792 2601 1914 2194
Jerrilee McCritichi 3620 4257 3155 3504
Beret Jost 2194 2587 2629 2153
Kenny Eardley 1968 4220 2416 3186
Total
Count Average Min Max
Named Ranges
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3 Navigation
4 Names in Formula
5 Apply Names
6 Zoom
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Make any cell in the table in 4.5 Practice the active cell.
Hit this key combination to select the entire table.
Or select data in a way of your choosing.
In the formulas tab of the ribbon, go to the "Defined Names" section
and select "Create from Selection".
Uncheck all boxes except "Top Row".
Click OK.
This is also possible using Ctrl + Shift + F3
Go to the name box and see the drop down showing the named ranges.
Use this shortcut key to goto ranges as well as the "Name Box"
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You should now get the result of 0.15 * 100, being 15.
Thus in 4.5b Practice, open the Define Name and type a name in
Then in "Refers to:" type "=sum(D3:D12)".
Select Select Active Cell to Last Used Cell Ctrl + Shift + End
Select Select Active Cell to Last Used Cell In Row Ctrl + Shift + >
Select Select Active Cell to First Used Cell In Row Ctrl + Shift + <
Select Select Active Cell to Last Used Cell In Column Ctrl + Shift + v
Select Select Active Cell to First Used Cell In Column Ctrl + Shift + ^
Navigate Goto F5
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Navigate Next Worksheet Ctrl + Up
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Navigate Last Worksheet Ctrl + Down
Other Toggle Show All Formula (Often Found Just Below Esc Key) Ctrl + `