Microsoft Excel By Tom Osti

What is Excel? Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet-application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It has been the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version 5 in 1993Excel is part of Microsoft Office.

Creation of Excel Microsoft originally made a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in This was very popular on CP/M systems On MS-DOS though lotus 123 was favoured The first version of Microsoft Excel came out on the MAC OS X in 1985 The first version to be released onto Windows was in November 1987 and soon after Windows had made 1988 Excel Afterwards this success Microsoft has released a new version of Excel every year The current Windows version Excel 12 (also known as Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is doing undoubtedly well

Excel Versions Excel Versions for Mac 1985 Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel 5.0 (Office 4.X -- Motorola version and first PowerPC version) 1998 Excel 8.0 (Office '98) 2000 Excel 9.0 (Office 2001) 2001 Excel 10.0 (Office v. X) 2004 Excel 11.0 (part of Office 2004 for Mac) 2008 Excel 12.0 (part of Office 2008 for Mac)

Excel Versions Versions for Microsoft Windows include: 1987 Excel 2.0 for Windows 1990 Excel Excel Excel 5.0 (Office 4.2 & 4.3, also a 32-bit version for Windows NT only on the PowerPC, DEC Alpha, and MIPS) 1995 Excel for Windows 95 (version 7.0) - included in Office Excel 97 - included in Office Excel 2000 (version 9.0) included in Office Excel 2002 (version 10) included in Office XP 2003 Excel 2003 (version 11) included in Office Excel 2007 (version 12) included in Office 2007

What can it be used for? There are many uses to excel This varies from being more advance to more basic tasks Graphs Tables Formulas Matrix(won’t be looking much into)

Matrix In mathematics, a matrix (plural matrices, or less commonly matrixes) is a rectangular array of numbers. Matrices consisting of only one column or row are called vectors, while higher-dimensional, e.g. three-dimensional, arrays of numbers are called tensors. Matrices can be added and subtracted entrywise and multiplied according to a rule corresponding to composition of linear transformations. These operations satisfy the usual identities, except that matrix multiplication is not commutative - the identity AB=BA can fail. Matrix is a regular arrangement of numbers for example.

Functions Excel was the first spreadsheet that allowed the user to define the appearance of spreadsheets (fonts, character attributes and cell appearance). It also introduced intelligent cell recomputation, where only cells dependent on the cell being modified are updated (previous spreadsheet programs recomputed everything all the time or waited for a specific user command). Excel has extensive graphing capabilities.

Tables Number Sequences Random Number Generating Naming Cells =RAND()*10 Product (Cleaner look No need for extra brackets) =SUM(G2,I2 ) =SUM($G$2,I2) =Average(B2,B11)

Tables

Graphs Graph Graph

Solvers – Simple Interest Example 1 – Simple Interest Simple Interest Rate Total Interest Rate Amount =C5+$C$3

Compound Interest Example 2 Compound Interest Interest Percent Total Original Interest =C4+E4 =$C$2*C5

Advanced Table Guesses Sum Average Log ^2

Special Pasting Pasting Equations Excel Paste into Word Being able to change numbers

Conclusion What is Excel Uses Tables Formulas Graphs Solvers Special Pasting