Excel can be used to manage finances, create calendars and schedules, plan projects and events, make lists, and build address books. It allows users to easily organize, sort, filter, and perform calculations on large amounts of data. Examples shown include budgets, calendars, project timelines, checklists, and contact databases. Links are provided for tutorials, templates, and videos demonstrating Excel's functionality.

1. B A S I C O P E R A T I O N S
EXCEL!

2. What can Excel do for me?
 Manage your finances
 Create a calendar or schedule
 Plan and manage a project or event
 Create lists
 Create an address book
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3. Manage Your Finances
 Create a personal or family budget and track your
income and expenses by month or year. Create a
spreadsheet that helps you plan and track your
savings for retirement, or for your child's college
education. Use Excel's built-in mathematical
functions to automatically calculate routine or
complex equations.
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4. Budget Example
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Your monthly income is your weekly pay multiplied by 4.33. This is to accommodate some months
with 5 paydays. This can be done before or after taxes.
Insert data in the January field
and it will automatically carry
over.

5. Create a Calendar or Schedule
 Whether it's a weekly, monthly or yearly calendar for
your family; a personal daily appointment planner; or a
schedule for managing homework, bill payments, or your
favorite sport team's games, Excel makes it easy to
organize, filter and search through large amounts of data.
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6. Calendar Example
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CL101850726.aspx

7. Plan and Manage a Project or Event
 Whether you are planning a large work project or a
wedding or holiday party, use Excel to keep track of
multiple tasks and deadlines, and the schedules of
other participants or collaborators--and as a central
database of all information and files you need to
execute the project or event.
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8. Project Example
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9. Create Lists
 Excel's convenient tabular layout makes it easy to
format many different types of lists. Create checklists
to make traveling and packing easier. Create an
emergency phone list for your babysitter. Manage
your book, wine or DVD collections via lists. Run
your household better by using Excel lists to manage
your groceries, chores and holiday gift-giving.
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10. List Examples : Daily Chores

11. Babysitter List

12. House Hunting Checklist

13. Create an Address Book
 Excel's extensive "filter," "sort" and "search" functions
make it easy to create and manage a large contact
database. You will be able to find and sort contacts by
city, state, street, last name or birthday, or by whatever
other criteria and detail you enter. When you need to
create mailing labels to send greeting cards or
announcements, use Excel's mail-merge feature to
quickly format and print out the names and addresses of
your contacts.
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14. Address Book Examples
http://www.ehow.com/how_4826382_address-book-computer.html

15. Rambling Librarian BLOG:
Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian
http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/09/two-guys-and-their-reading-list-in-2007.html

16. Helpful Links
EASY: http://www.easyexceltutorial.com/excel-most-used-functions.html
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelfunctions/ss/sum_autosum.htm
http://techtites.com/2008/05/22/excel-tutorial-sumif-with-multiple-conditions/
http://www.graspr.com/videos/Episode-226-SumIf-with-2-Conditions
http://www.advancedexceltutorial.com/excel-sum-function.html
Templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/
What can Excel do?
Basic uses: http://www.ehow.com/how_4606589_what-some-practical-uses-excel.html
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_functions.htm
Practical Uses: http://www.ehow.com/how_4606589_what-some-practical-uses-excel.html
PC World article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/105312/who_knew_excel_could_do_that_ten_top_tips.html
Fun things Excel can do: http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/15-fun-things-with-excel/
Address book: http://www.ehow.com/how_4826382_address-book-computer.html
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Formulas: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/examples-of-commonly-used-
formulas-HP005200127.aspx

17. Learn Watching Videos..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVqM5nk-XY
Moving Columns:
Formulas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXPBTh99GE&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNPNS6MT1Kk
Excel Introduction:
And many more!!
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