Introduction To Microsoft Excel

Introduction

           

Excel is an integrated electronic worksheet program developed by Microsoft Corporation; U.S.A. Excel is what is known as a spreadsheet application. Microsoft excel allows you to create professional spreadsheets including large no. of rows & columns and charts. It includes three components- worksheet, graph and DBMS. It performs numerous functions and formulas.         

A spread sheet still uses the idea of a large sheet of paper into which numbers are entered. A spreadsheet is a highly interactive computer program that consists of a collection of rows and columns that are displayed on screen in a scrollable window. 

Excel also allows for multiple sheets, so a spreadsheet could be split over several pages; say one page for input, one page for calculations, and another for output. This collection of pages is known as a workbook

Excel provides some items with buttons

• Title bar
• Menu bar
• Formatting tool bar
• Standard tool bar
• Name box
• Formula Bar                                                                                                 
• Cell contents
• Rows
• Formula
• Columns
• Worksheet
• Scrollbars
• Sheet Tab Scroll Button
• Sheet Tab
• Workbook
• Spread sheet 

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