Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that organizes data into rows and columns. It contains various tools to format, analyze, and visualize data using functions, formulas, charts, and other features. Common Excel tools include formatting cells, adding formulas and functions like SUM and AVERAGE, and inserting pie charts and column charts. Excel is widely used by accountants, marketers, students, teachers, and others to organize numeric information.

1. Spreadsheet Tools Done by: Shamsa Alfalasi ID:200922245 Course: COL 270-541

2. Objectives What is Spreadsheet What is tool in Microsoft Excel What is it used for Who uses Microsoft Excel What are the basic tools: Why is it important Conclusion

3. What is spreadsheet Definition Excel or spreadsheet is used to represent the data in more understandable, recognizable and organized form Example

4. A tool in Microsoft excel Definition The "Tools" section in Microsoft Excel is a function that will allow the user to manipulate or format the cell that has been selected Example

5. What it is used for Microsoft Excel is used to organize numeric data

6. Who Uses Microsoft excel Accountants Marketing professionals Financial analysts Students Teachers

7. Basic Tools Format Orientation Wrap text Formulas and functions: -Sum -Average Charts: -Columns -Pie

8. Basic tools

9. Example Select the row containing the headers and right click on it and select Format Cells option

10. Example Select the cells you want to format Click on the orientation in the home tab

11. Example Select the cells you want to wrap Click on the home tap and then choose wrap text

12. Formulas and functions How to write a formula The formula starts with a = in the front Example

13. Sum Function Adds the values in the function argument or the values in the cell references in the argument.

14. Average Provides the average of the range of references in the argument

15. Charts Pie The 3-D pie chart is a simple chart style that is useful for illustrating the parts of a whole. Found in the insert tool Columns Columns are the vertical divisions of a worksheet that are identified by letters. They are found in the insert tool

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