Spreadsheet

Microsoft Office Excel

History of Spreadsheets
• The compound word 'spread-sheet' came to mean
the format used to present book-keeping ledgers—
with columns for categories of expenditures across
the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and
the amount of each payment in the cell where its
row and column intersect—which were,
traditionally, a "spread" across facing pages of a
bound ledger (book for keeping accounting records)
or on oversized sheets of paper (termed 'analysis
paper') ruled into rows and columns in that format
and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.
ACCOUNTING LEDGERS
Basics
Electronic
Spreadsheets
Creating a
Spreadsheet
1. Open
Application
2. Select “Create
New Blank
Workbook”
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Values in a cell
• The values that can be written in a cell are the
following:
• Number
• Text
• Formula
• Function
• Date
• Month
• Day
• Year
Fundamental Operations
• The following Operations can be done/calculated
using an electronic spreadsheet.
• Multiplication (*) Ex: =2*4
• Division (/) Ex: =8/4
• Addition (+) Ex: =8+4
• Subtraction (-) Ex: =8-4
• Others
• Parenthesis () Ex: =(8*4)+4 used for prioritizing parts of
an equation.
• Exponent (^) Ex: =8*(4^2)
Formulas in a Cell

4 6 =A2+B2

Note: In creating Formula’s or

Equations, it should always begin
with the “EQUAL” sign (=).
Sample Formulas
Spreadsheets
 SIMPLE INTEREST

• Simple Interest Formulas and Calculations:

• Simple interest FORMULA to find I, the Final Investment
Value, using the simple interest formula: I = P(1 + rt)
where P is the Principal amount of money to be
invested at an Interest Rate r% per period for t Number
of time Periods.
Formulas in a Cell (Simple Interest)

1000 0.03 9 =A2*(1+(B2*C2))

Note: Here, we can see that we have

prioritized parts of our equation by
using the parenthesis operator ().
BODY MASS INDEX

• The formula is BMI = kg/m^2 where kg is a

person's weight in kilograms and m^2 is their
height in metres squared.
• A BMI of 25.0 or more is overweight, while the
healthy range is 18.5 to 24.9. BMI applies to most
adults 18-65 years.
Formulas in a Cell (Simple Interest)

72 1.803 =A2/(B2^2)

Note: Here, we need to prioritize

B2^2, because the formula requires
height to be raised to 2.
Built-in Formulas
• Average.
• Format: =Average(CellAddress,CellAddress,nth,) or
=Average(StartCellAddress:EndingCellAddress)
• Example: =Average(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) individual cells are used.
• Or: =Average(A1:A5) a range of cell is used, where A1 is the
starting cell and A5 is the ending cell of the range.
• Sum.
• Format: =Sum(CellAddress,CellAddress,nth,) or
=Sum(StartCellAddress:EndingCellAddress)
• Example: =Sum(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) individual cells are used.
• Or: =Sum(A1:A5) a range of cell is used, where A1 is the
starting cell and A5 is the ending cell of the range.
Built-in Formulas

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=sum(A1:A5) =sum(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5)
Note: the same thing can be done
with Average formula, it goes like
this: =Average(A1:A5) or
=Average(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5)
Your turn!
Activity
• Create a Spreadsheet of your School Report Card that automatically
computes your general average for 2 Semesters (1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th
Quarter)
A B C D E
1 Subject 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2 Subject 1 ________ ________ ________ ________
3 Subject 2 ________ ________ ________ ________
4 Subject 3 ________ ________ ________ ________
5 Subject 4 ________ ________ ________ ________
6 Subject 5 ________ ________ ________ ________
7 Subject 6 ________ ________ ________ ________
8 Subject 7 ________ ________ ________ ________
9 Subject 8 ________ ________ ________ ________
10 Average 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts
11 General Weighted Average 10 pts