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 EDIT: Cut, Copy, etc. 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 INSERT: Row or Column EDIT: Delete
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Change width/height of row/column FORMAT: Column, Width FORMAT: Row, Height
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell. FORMAT: Cells
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell. FORMAT: Cells
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell. FORMAT: Cells
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell. FORMAT: Cells
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Font, alignment, boarder & number of cell. FORMAT: Cells
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 INSERT: Function
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Insert / Function / Sum INSERT: Function
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Insert / Function / Max or Min INSERT: Function
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Insert / Function / Count INSERT: Function
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Insert / Function / Small or Large INSERT: Function
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Excel Function - COUNTIF Excel Functions –Mean Average(A1:A10)
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
L99A MBA Basic Excel - Office Grab an entire column of data (CTRL+ SHIFT, down arrow). Hi-lite cell, 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 by 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/