1. MS Excel Lesson 5 – Creating Formulae

2. MS Excel - formula All formulae start with an = sign as seen in the formula box. Formulae designate cells rather than the values in the cells. E.g. c2+b2 would add what ever the value in c2 to the value of b2.

3. MS Excel - Formula You can designate a range of cells in a formula. To add all the cells c2 to c20 the formula would be: =sum(c2.c20). See example.

4. MS Excel – Functions Excel has many functions that may be used in the work sheet. Choose the function by clicking on Insert and then function. Then select the function you need

5. MS Excel - Functions The Paste function window is divided into Function Category and Function Name To see all functions click on All and then look in right column for all available functions.

6. MS Excel - functions When you choose a function e.g. average, a window opens, choose the range of cells to average. When you set the range, the average will appear in the cell you have chosen. See next screen.

7. MS Excel - Functions Notice the average for the selected range of cells.