Microsoft Excel Week1 Tutorial

1. Microsoft
Excel
Terminologies
By: Mr. Jumari U. Mercullo

2. EXCEL TERMINOLOGIES
• Workbook - is a spreadsheet file. By
default, each workbook in Excel contains
three pages or worksheets.
• Worksheets - is a single page or sheet in
a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
• Spreadsheet - spreadsheet refers to the
computer program, such as Excel.

3. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• Quick Access Toolbar - lets you access
common commands no matter which tab
you are on. By default, it shows the
Save, Undo, and Repeat commands. You
can add other commands to make it more
convenient for you.

4. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• Control Box – Contains the basic controls
in a window explorer.
• Close
• Restore: Maximize and Restore
• Minimize

5. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• RIBBON - contains all of the commands
you will need in order to do common tasks.
It has multiple tabs, each with several
groups of commands.

6. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• NAME BOX - tells you the location or the
"name" of a selected cell.

7. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• FORMULA BAR - you can enter or edit
data, a formula, or a function that will
appear in a specific cell.

8. ENVIRONMENT
TERMINOLOGIES
• FUNCTION BUTTON (fx) – it starts the
function wizard to enable you to pick the
function of your choice

9. ROWS & COLUMNS
• COLUMN - is a group of cells that runs
from the top of the page to the bottom. In
Excel, columns are identified by letters.

10. ROWS & COLUMNS
• ROW - is a group of cells that runs from
the left of the page to the right. In
Excel, rows are identified by numbers.

11. COLUMNS & ROWS
comparison
• EXCEL 2003 provides: 256 columns and
labeled as the alphabets, while the row
contains 65,536 unique rows.
• EXCEL 2010 provides: increased to
16,384 columns and the row also
increased to 1,048,576.

12. CELL comparison
• CELL - is the intersection point of
a column and a row.
- each cell has a unique name.
• EXCEL 2003 – provides 16,777,216
unique individual cell.
• EXCEL 2010 – provides 17,179,869,184
unique individual cell.

13. PAGE VIEW
• PAGE VIEW - There are three ways to
view a worksheet.
• Normal view - is selected by default, and
shows you an unlimited number of cells
and columns.

14. PAGE VIEW
• PAGE LAYOUT - divides your spreadsheet
into pages.

15. PAGE VIEW
• PAGE BEAK - lets you see an overview of
your worksheet, which is helpful when you
are adding page breaks.