1. Computer Skills and Applications Microsoft Excel

2. What is Microsoft Excel? Software developed and manufactured by Microsoft Corporation that allows user to organize, format, and calculate data with formulas using a spreadsheet system broken up by rows and columns. The first software program similar to Excel was released in 1982 and was called Multiplan.

3. Excel Basics A document created with Microsoft Excel is known as a Workbook. Each new workbook contains one worksheet, with the capability to add more worksheets as needed.

4. This is what your Microsoft Excel Ribbon looks like:

5. Ribbon Dynamics The Excel Ribbon is dynamic meaning that it’s width changes and buttons adapt according to the following scenarios: Sufficient space results in Home Tab Buttons being spread out and available commands visible Decreasing horizontal space available to the ribbon causes small button labels to disappear and groups of buttons to hide under one button representing the entire group. When the ribbon becomes to narrow to display all groups, a scroll arrow appears on the right end and clicking on this scroll arrow will display hidden group.

6. Ribbon Width Determination Screen Width Determined By: Program Window Width Screen Resolution Screen Display Magnification Screen resolution is the size of your screen display expressed as pixels wide x pixels high. The greater the number of the pixels wide, then the greater the number of the buttons that can be shown on the ribbon.