LESSON 2

Working and Manipulating Data in a

Workbook
 SPREADSHEET
• Is an electronic document that stores various
types of data.
 Saving a Workbook
• After working with your workbook, we need
to save whatever files we created and edit.
The importance of saving is that we are able
to retrieve files when we need it.
• Saving a workbook has two choices: save or
save as.
• The save as feature is used when you need to
save a workbook under a different name or to
save it for earlier versions of Excel.
 Opening a Workbook
• Click Microsoft Office Button
• Click Open
• Browse to the workbook
• Click or type in the filename of the workbook
• Click Open
 Entering Data
• There are different ways to enter data in Excel
1) using the active cell and 2) using the
formula bar
 Copy, Cut and Paste Commands
• Cut feature in MS Excel is used to remove
information from a worksheet.
• Paste feature is used to place the information
being cut anywhere in the same or another
worksheet.
• Copy after typing information into a
worksheet and want to place the same
information somewhere else, you don’t have
to retype the information.
 Undo and Redo Commands
• Undo command in MS Excel can quickly
correct mistakes made while working in a
worksheet.
• Redo command let redoes the thing you just
undo.
 Auto Fill Feature
• Fills cell data or series of data in a worksheet
into a selected range of cells.
 QUIZ
1. Is an electronic document that stores various types of data.
2. The importance of saving.
3. This feature is used when you need to save a workbook under a
different name or to save it for earlier versions of Excel.
4-5. Different ways to enter data in Excel
6. This feature in MS Excel is used to remove information from a
worksheet.
7. This feature is used to place the information being cut anywhere in
the same or another worksheet.
8. After typing information into a worksheet and want to place the
same information somewhere else, you don’t have to retype the
information.
9. This command in MS Excel can quickly correct mistakes made while
working in a worksheet.
10. This command let redoes the thing you just undo.