This document provides an overview of Microsoft Excel and its functions. It defines Excel as a spreadsheet program used to record and analyze numerical data in a table format of columns and rows. It then lists several common uses of Excel in education, business, goal setting, data analysis, and more. Finally, it explains some common statistical functions in Excel like SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, and COUNT and provides examples of how to use them.

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4. WHAT IS MICROSOFT EXCEL ?
 Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used to record and analyze numerical and
statistical data.
 Microsoft Excel provides multiple features to perform various operations like calculations,
pivot tables, graph tools, macro programming, etc.
 A Excel spreadsheet can be understood as a collection of columns and rows that form a
table.
 The point where a column and a row meet is called a cell.
 The address of a cell is given by the letter representing the column and the number
representing a row.

5. USES OF MICROSOFT EXCEL
Education
 Use of table styles, shapes, charts, data tools, and formulas in the classrooms. And it provides a visual
representation of data.
Business
 The business can use MS Excel to perform goal setting, budgeting process, and planning, etc. also
Financial services and financial accounting are the areas of finance that rely on and benefit from
Excel spreadsheets the most.
Goal Setting and Planning
 MS Excel provides a wide range of templates which can be used for organizational as well as
personal goal setting and planning.

6. Business Owners
 Excel allows Entrepreneur to store any data from accounts, to merchandise, to phone numbers and
view and track it in an organized manner.
Housewives
 The Housewives can manage their daily house expenses which can track the spending habit of each
member of the house.
Data Analysis And Data Science
 Excel Offers The data Analysis function which is quite handy for the data analyst to Understand
the data.

7. Daily Progress Report
 Excel is also helpful in creating a daily progress report, Especially in project- based companies
whether the clients need a weekly, monthly, report from the company.
Career Development
 The task such as learning management ,time management, work & life management and goal
focused habits are important which can be efficiently practiced on MS-Excel.
Data Security
 All the files of MS- Excel can be kept password protected through visual basic programming or directly
within the excel file.

8. WHAT IS FUNCTION IN EXCEL ?
A function is a predefined formula that performs calculations using specific values in a particular order.
Function is used for quick tasks like finding the summation of a range of numbers, counting the number of items in a
given range, etc.
Let's look at some of the 5 most commonly statistical functions :

9. Steps to Open the Function in Excel
 You can simply enter the desired formula in the required cell to attain a return value on the
argument.
 You can manually open the formula dialogue box in the spreadsheet and enter the values to attain
a return value.
 To open the from Function library - go to the Formula →More Functions →Statistical
→ then choose the desired formula we want.
 Also you can find some formulas in bar under sheet tab bar

10. SUM FUNCTION
 SUM: This function adds all of the values of the cells in the argument.
 FORMULA : =SUM(number1,[number2],…..)
Sum will be

11. Average will be
AVERAGE FUNCTION
 AVERAGE: This function determines the average of the value included in the
argument
 FORMULA : =AVERAGE(number1,[number2],…..)

12. MAX FUNCTION
 FORMULA : =MAX(number1,[number2],…..)
 MAX: This function determines the highest cell value included in the argument
Maximum will be

13. MIN FUNCTION
 FORMULA : =MIN(number1,[number2],…..)
 MIN: This function determines the lowest cell value included in the argument
Minimum will be

14. COUNT FUNCTION
 FORMULA : =COUNT(value1,[value2],…..)
 COUNT : This function counts the number of cell with numerical data in the
argument. This function is useful for quickly counting items in cell range
Count will be