Basic Excel Capabilities MBA 7025 Statistical Business Analysis Reviewed at various places in Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Objective of module Learn basic Excel capabilities. Practice using Excel “Functions”.
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Basic Spreadsheets Capabilities Cut, Copy, Paste & Paste Special Cell corner Copy Add or delete Rows or Columns Change width/height of row/column Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell Referencing and calculations with cells. Data / Sort Naming cell or range of cells Insert / Function / Average Sum, Max, Min, Count, Small and Large Single quote for equation statement. REPLACE command. DATA / Group & FORMAT: Column, Hide. Grab an entire column of data (CTRL+SHIFT, down arrow).
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Cut, Copy, Paste & Paste Special Icons on toolbar Right Clip fro Drop-down Menu CTRL + C, CTRL+V CTRL + Insert, SHIFT + Insert
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Cell corner Copy Grab corner, hold left button and pull down. Release corner
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Cell corner Copy Double click corner
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Add or delete Rows or Columns NO Right Click, then Insert or Delete from Drown-down menu Right Click, then Insert or Delete from Drown-down menu
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Add or delete Rows or Columns Yes
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Change width/height of row/column Right Click, then Row Height from Drop-down menu Right Click, then Column Width from Drop-down menu
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell.
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell.
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell.
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Referencing and calculations with cells. Relative addressing
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Referencing and calculations with cells. Absolute addressing
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Data / Sort DATA: Sort
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Naming cell or range of cells 1) Hi-lite array of data 2) Give array a name 3) Use name in subsequent calculations
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Insert / Function / Average
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Examples of Insert Functions
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Excel Function - COUNTIF
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Single quote for equation statement. Single quote
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office REPLACE command. EDIT: Replace
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office DATA / Group DATA: Group / Group
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office FORMAT: Column, Hide. FORMAT: Column, Hide Right Click, then Hide from Drop-down menu
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Grab an entire column of data (CTRL+ SHIFT, down arrow). Hi-lite top cell, then CTRL+SHIFT, down arrow
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Preferred Pasting Procedures Paste ‘Excel Worksheets’ in to other documents (WORD or POWER POINT) using “Paste Special”, “ Picture”. –Do NOT use “Paste” which sometimes creates an active table. Definitely don’t use “Paste Link” which will create a live link to the original Excel spreadsheet. –If the object to be pasted in a picture or graph use “Picture Enhanced Metafile”, instead of “Picture” Sometimes YES NO
L99A MBA Basic Excel, Office Capturing Procedures Paste Menus from other program into WORD and POWER POINT y using “Alt”-”Print Screen” to capture the current, active image in the other program and send it to the clip board. Then, use regular “Paste” to insert a picture of the menu into your document. Note, if “Print Screen” (without holding down Alt) is used, the entire screen is captured. Alternatively, if you only want a portion of the active, image use the Snipping Tool. Access this by clicking on the following /All Programs/Accessories/Snapping Tool/