This document provides an overview of spreadsheet skills in Microsoft Excel. It discusses commonly used Excel functions, conditional functions, and using Excel for research. It also outlines the basics of creating and manipulating Excel spreadsheets, including making calculations, copying and pasting work, and recognizing Excel file extensions.

1. Spreadsheet Skills

2. Commonly used Microsoft® Excel Functions
Conditional Functions
Use of Microsoft® Excel in Research

3. Excel spreadsheets
•What you need to know:
–Creating new spreadsheets
–Resizing your rows & columns
–Inserting, deleting, and hiding rows & columns
–Making calculations & using cell-references
–Copy/paste your work into other applications
•How to recognize an Excel file?
–The file names ends in «.xls»