Microsoft Excel 2016

Lesson 1
Overview

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Objectives

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Software Orientation
• Excel 2016 provides powerful tools to organize, analyze,
manage, and share information.
• The foundation of Excel and locations where you do your work
are cells, rows, and columns within a worksheet, and
worksheets as part of a workbook.
• How Many Rows and Columns in Excel 2016?
1. 10,48,576 rows and
2. 16,384 columns.

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Software Orientation

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Starting Excel
• Click Start, All apps, and then Excel 2016 to open Excel.
• Excel opens to a list of templates.
• Typically, you will open a Blank workbook or open a previous
file.
• A workbook, or spreadsheet file, can be compared to a
physical book with many pages.
• When you open a blank workbook, the temporary filename
(Book1) and the program name (Excel) appear in the title bar
at the top of the screen.

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Starting Excel
• The new workbook contains one worksheet (Sheet1) by
default.
• The sheet tabs are located just above the Status bar and are
identified as Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3. (Think of these as
pages.)
• Add worksheets with the New sheet (+) button as needed.

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Step by Step: Start Excel
• A worksheet is a grid composed of rows, columns, and cells.
• Each worksheet column starts at the top of the worksheet and
goes to the bottom of the worksheet and is identified by a
letter.
• Each row starts at the left edge of the worksheet and
continues to the right and is identified by a number.
• Each box, or cell, on the grid is identified by the intersection
of a column and a row.
• Enter information by typing it into the active cell (also called
the current or highlighted cell), which is outlined by a bold
rectangle.

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Skill Summary

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