2019 Microsoft Excel
For Beginners
+
30 Formulas & Features
The Step-By-Step Guide
C.J. Benton
Copyright 2019 C.J. Benton
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
An Introduction To Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program allowing users to organize, report, calculate, track, and perform analysis on virtually any type of data. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite. At the time of this publication, the collection of software products is available in three forms:
1) Office v2019 , along with require the software to be installed onto a laptop or desktop computer. You pay a one-time fee and receive a license for three to seven of the below applications.
2) Office 365 is a subscription-based model, where you pay a monthly or annual fee to use the suite. Office 365 provides full access to the seven products listed below. Office 365 has no versions; with the subscription you always have the most up-to-date edition.
3) Office Online is a free, scaled down version (limited feature set) of Office 365, however it does not include Publisher or Access .
for Office v2019 or Office 365 varies depending on home or business use. Microsoft does offer discounts to select educators, students, and non-profits.
Access (a database application)
Excel (please see definition below)
OneNote (stores text, web links, images and other information)
Outlook (an email application)
PowerPoint (a presentation / slideshow program)
- Publisher (create professional looking flyers, brochures, etc.)
Word (a word processing application)
The four most widely used applications of the suite are, Word , Outlook , PowerPoint , and Excel .
Excel is a spreadsheet program allowing users to organize, report, calculate, track, and perform analysis on virtually any type of data. |
With Excel, users can create everything from simple lists and perform basic arithmetic calculations to interfacing with external databases and analyzing millions of records. Sophisticated engineering calculations and statistics can be completed in milliseconds. Repetitive spreadsheet tasks can be automated and performed with a single click of a button.
Formatting, graphs, and other presentation tools allow you to easily create professionally looking budgets, reports, estimates, invoices, lists, charts, matrices, virtually any type of artifact containing text, currency, numeric, or time values.
Excel is also the application that interfaces the most with other software programs in the Microsoft Office suite. For example, if you had customer and sales information contained in Excel you could export these records into Word and create client invoices.
You may easily import data from Access or a multitude of other data sources for analysis, testing, project schedules, and more.
There are hundreds of templates and pre-made spreadsheets available for . These can save you time or serve as inspiration for designing your own worksheets.
Excel is perhaps the most versatile and flexible application ever developed. Basic knowledge and experience with Excel, along with Word and Outlook, are required skills for many professions and college students.
In the following pages, well introduce you to the basic functionality of Excel. Well review the most commonly used toolbar (Ribbon) commands, how to create a new spreadsheet, including formatting, saving, and printing. In addition to this, youll learn how to apply 30 of the most frequently used formulas and features, including a step-by-step example creating a basic Pivot Table.
When finished, youll have a solid understanding of Excel and be ready to take the next step in your education of the Microsoft Office suite.
Training Segments
This book is divided into three sections and may be used as a tutorial or quick reference guide. It is intended for those who are new to Excel or for those who would like to improve their Excel skills.
All of the examples in this book use Microsoft Excel 2019 , however most of the functionality may be applied using Microsoft Excel version 2016. All screenshots in this book use Microsoft Excel 2019. There are no examples or review using Office 365 or Office Online.
While this book provides a general overview and several examples, it does not cover all available Microsoft Excel features, formulas, and functionality.
Please always back-up your work and save often . A good best practice when attempting any new work is to create a copy of the original spreadsheet and implement your changes on the copied spreadsheet. Should anything go wrong, you then have the original spreadsheet to refer back to. Please see the diagram below.
List of Formulas & Features Detailed In This Book
Step-By-Step examples for the following formulas and features:
Files For Exercises
The exercise files are available for download at the following website:
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All files are saved in Excel version 2019