This document provides an overview of common functions and features in Microsoft Excel, including statistical, date, financial, logical, and text functions. It discusses how to format worksheets, add headers and footers, insert and modify charts, sort and filter tables, and print worksheets. Key functions covered include AVERAGE, COUNT, MAX, MIN, NOW, TODAY, IF, and PMT. It provides examples of how to use these functions and customize various Excel elements.

1. Microsoft Excel Finishing Up

3. Average- adds all numbers and finds the average

4. Count- gives the number of cells that contain numbers. Empty cells, text labels, or errors are not counted

5. Max- gives the largest value

6. Min- gives the smallestvalue

7. What do functions and formulas always begin with?

8. Example: =Name(Argument)

10. Cells that have dates and times can be formatted using the Number Format drop down from the Home tab

11. Possible use of date functions: used to calculate due dates when given a start date for bills, invoice, etc…

12. Example date functions

13. =now()

14. =today()

16. PMT function: used to calculate a payment loan based on constant payments, a constant interest rate, and a set period of time

17. PPMT function: calculate the principal portion of a specific payment for a loan

19. Format: =IF(logical_test, value_if_true, value_if_false)

21. To make a worksheet look good, center a smaller one or scale down a larger one

22. Print Preview allows you to see how a worksheet will look once printed

23. After clicking Print Preview, you can change the layout by clicking Page Setup

24. Page Setup

25. Adjust the Margins

26. Center Horizontally or Vertically

27. Change Page Orientation

29. Header: text that prints at the top of the worksheet

30. Footer: text that prints at the bottom of each worksheet

32. Compares values across categories

33. Pie Chart

34. Illustrate each data point’s size in proportion to the total of all items in the range. Each pie slice is displayed as a percentage of the whole pie. Only use when you have one data series and there are no negative or zero values.

35. Modifying Charts

37. You can insert new sheets by clicking the Insert Worksheet button or by right clicking on the worksheet bar and choosing Insert

38. Right clicking on the tab for each sheet will allow you to delete, rename, or change the tab color for the sheet

39. To move a worksheet, simply drag the tab to the new position

41. The Page Break View will allows you to drag page breaks to different places

43. Tables allow you to sort and filter with ease

44. Filter arrows appear in the first row of the table and a border appears around the table by default

45. Excel includes predefined table styles grouped into categories. This allows you to add color, borders, and shading. You can also create custom table styles.

48. Once you are finished working with filtered data, you can remove the filter to redisplay all the rows.

49. Data not in a table can be filtered using the Sort and Filter buttons.