Watch this with a 10-15 minute audiotrack at http://vimeo.com/novusprogram/excel1 This lesson provides information on the basics of Excel, Microsoft’s powerful spreadsheet development tool. The topics covered include a basic review of the program’s toolbars and options, and an introduction to data entry and data formatting. The lesson teaches concepts through a combination of image-based slides and video tutorials. The objective of the lesson is for the user to be comfortable with operations such as opening and creating Excel documents, saving Excel documents, navigating the options and toolbar, entering data into the worksheet, and formatting data color and size. The Novus project is a combination of video tutorials designed to be used in conjunction with a free business simulation software program. The Novus Business and IT Program contains 36 business and IT training videos, covering basic finance, accounting, marketing, economics, business strategy, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users will have an opportunity to apply the lessons in the Novus Business Simulator. Over six rounds, the user or teams will have to make decisions on capital purchases, financing, production, financing, and human resources for a microbrewery. This channel has arranged the 36 video lessons into the order in which they are meant to be used with the simulator. To watch this slideshow as a video, please go to our Vimeo page at: https://vimeo.com/novusprogram. To download our free business simulation software, please go to our SourceForge page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novus/.

1. Microsoft Excel 1: Excel Basics
Objective: To provide an overview of Excel’s various toolbars and options,
and give an introduction to data entry and data formatting.
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2. Capabilities
• Commercial spreadsheet program with three
major capabilities.
– Calculations
– Charting
– Database Management
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3. Capabilities: Calculations
• Can handle simple and complex calculations.
• User must understand how calculation works.
• Large amounts of calculations made easier with
formulas.
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4. Capabilities: Charting
• Graphical display of data
• Many different types of charts and graphs
available.
• Excel charting is used in other Office programs.
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5. Capabilities: Database Management
• Easily create database of information –
customer, participant, etc.
• Use Excel tools to organize and analyze data.
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6. Basic Layout
Top
Middle
Bottom
– Start menu (All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Excel)
To Open Excel: – Excel program shortcut
– Saved Excel file
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7. Office Button & Quick Access Toolbar
• The Office Button
• The Quick Access
Toolbar
• Office Button Menu
– Opens when you click on
the Office Button.
– Main program options.
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8. Office Button: Save Window
• Saving your
document is very
important.
Popular Directories
Current Directory
File Name
Save Button
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9. Ribbon Bar
Ribbon Bar Tabs
• The Ribbon bar is made up of eight tabs:
– Home, Insert, Page Layout, Formulas, Data, Review, View and
Developer
• Contains the main document options.
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10. Ribbon Bar: Home & View Tabs
The Home tab provides many options for editing text, formatting text, and formatting
your spreadsheet or data.
The View tab provides options for changing how your document is displayed.
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11. Name Box & Formula Bar
Name Box Formula Bar
• The name box shows the name of the currently
selected cell.
• The formula bar is used to input data and
formulas.
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12. Work Area
Columns
• Identified by letters.
Identifying Headers
Rows
• Identified by numbers.
Cell
• Middle section is made up of columns and rows.
• Columns and rows identified by headers.
• Cells are the rectangles where column and row meet.
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13. Cells and Ranges
• The cell is identified by column letter and row
number  A1, E15, H7, etc.
• Cell ranges are groups of cells.
• Cell ranges are identified by first cell and last
cell.  A1:B2 includes A1, A2, B1, B2.
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14. Worksheet Tabs
• The sheet tabs hold your spreadsheets multiple worksheets.
• Add and delete worksheets from this section.
View Options and Zoom
• Switch between Normal, Page Layout, and Page Break view options.
• Use the Zoom Slider to change the zoom on your worksheet.
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15. Video 1
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16. Video 2
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17. Microsoft Excel 1: Wrap-Up
• Become an expert at the basics:
– Program layout
– Basic options
– Data entry
– Data formatting
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