Business computing Lesson 3 : Excel

Opened applications We can have opened several applications at the same time Excel (a spreadsheet) PowerPoint (to make slides) MS Internet Explorer (a browser) We can see which applications are opened in the task bar

New slide within PPT When creating a new slide within PowerPoint, a common mistake is to actually create a new PPT document. That’s not what we want We want within the same document to create a new slide (ctrl + M) We don’t want « many collections of one slide », we want « one collection of many slides »

EXCEL It has toolbars like the other softwares of the MS Office suite The main toolbars are the same : menu, standard, formatting… A blank excel document is a sheet that is a grid of empty cells

The attributes of a cell Each cell in an excel sheet has –An address : for instance B6 –A content : for instance « Poitiers » –A name : for instance « City » The content of a cell can be –A word –A number –A formula

Cell content What we enter into a cell also appears into the « formula window » (aka « formula bar ») Secondly, we can check what was entered into a cell by selecting it, and typing F2

Sheets One Excel document is made of several sheets (the default number is 3) Let’s work with them –The cell « sales » is « =price*quantity » We can even name whole columns and whole rows Then a cell can be called by its row and column (even in a formula)

Some calculations Discounting future cash flows