1. How to Use Basic Arithmetic to Create Excel
Formulas
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2. Basic Arithmetic Operators in Excel:
+ equals ADD
- - equals SUBTRACTION
- * equals MULTIPLICATION
- / equals DIVISION
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3. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
First a Sample Spreadsheet:
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4. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
Notice the numbers on the side and the letters on
the top
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5. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
The numbers are rows – the letters are columns
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6. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
Together they intersect to a box known as a
Cell
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7. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
When a calculation needs to be done,
columns and rows (cells) will be used to
perform the mathematical calculations – Let’s
see how…
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8. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
ADDITION is the first calculation:
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9. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
First question to ask:
“How would you use Excel to get a grand
total of the previous numbers based on columns,
rows, cells ?
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10. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- Numbers to be added (addends) are in column B
- The arithmetic operator in Excel to be used for
this calculation is the +
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11. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- To manually accomplish this arithmetic task you
must observe where numbers or any data are in
relation to cells, rows, and columns
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12. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- In this case, numbers are in the cell range
(highlighted group of cells) B4 to B7 or in Excel
– speak that would be B4:B7 – this range will be
the calculation range for data
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13. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- We will be performing arithmetic/addition on the
cells B4:B7 by using the following formula
(built-in functionalities) =SUM(B4:B7)
- = (always start off formulas with it)
- SUM (Excel built-in arithmetic
functionality that performs addition)
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14. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- (B4:B7) (calculation range – always in
parentheses)
- The =SUM(B4:B7) formula effectively
ADDS B4 (67) +
B5(889)+B6(90)+B7(4532) an totals the
amount in cell B8
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15. How to Use Arithmetic to Create Excel Formulas
- Other Excel formulas are created the
same way whether the arithmetic
operation is subtraction =(B4-B7),
division =(B4/B7), multiplication,
=(B4*B7) or addition (B4+B7)
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16. - They are hundreds of Excel MATH
functions and Excel can be used as a
simple calculator for arithmetic
functions!
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