NAME: Ruky Jean C.

Ferrer
COURSE & SECTION: CLC – C
DATE: April 27, 2022

1. What is Microsoft Excel?

 MS Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application that is produced and
distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS operating systems. It
features the ability to perform basic calculations, use graphing tools, create pivot
tables and create macros, among other useful features.

Spreadsheet applications such as MS Excel use a collection of cells arranged

into rows and columns to organize and manipulate data. They can also display
data as charts, histograms and line graphs.

MS Excel permits users to arrange data in order to view various factors from
different perspectives. Microsoft Visual Basic is a programming language used
for applications in Excel, allowing users to create a variety of complex numerical
methods. Programmers are given an option to code directly using the Visual
Basic Editor, including Windows for writing code, debugging and code module
organization.
Reference: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/5430/microsoft-excel

2. Microsoft excel users interface?

 The Excel interface revolves around the ribbon, which is the strip of controls
across the top section of the application window. The ribbon is comprised of tabs,
which contain groups of controls, and this terminology is used to identify the
location of tools. For example, bold font is applied to the selected range via the
Home tab, Font group, Bold button.

The following image shows the Excel 2016 application window with the Home tab
active and an open workbook containing one empty worksheet:
Excel Interface
 Reference:https://www.modano.com/resources/learning/microsoft_excel/
excel_fundamentals/introducing_excel/what_is_excel

3. What is electronic spreadsheet?

 An electronic spreadsheet (or simply a ‘spreadsheet’) is an electronic version of
the accountant's traditional paper spreadsheet, which stores numeric data in two-
dimensional tables that display the results of calculations performed on these
data. They have been called, with some justification, ‘God's gift to planners.’
They are easy to learn, forgiving of errors, and provide an intuitively logical
structure for examining any quantitative problem that can be formulated as a two-
dimensional table. They are easily adaptable, allowing users to copy data and
computational formulas easily from one location to another and develop
predefined ‘spreadsheet models’ that for many years provided the most widely
used software tools designed specifically for planning applications (see, e.g.,
Klosterman et al. 1993). And, most importantly, spreadsheets are ideal for
examining the ‘what if’ questions that permeate planning by allowing planners
quickly and easily to determine the effects of alternative policy choices and
different assumptions about the future.

Reference:https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-
molecular-biology/electronic-spreadsheet