1. Office 2003 Introductory Concepts and Techniques M i c r o s o f t Excel Project 1 Creating a Worksheet and an Embedded Chart

2. 2 Introduction to Excel Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows users to organize data, complete calculations, graph data, develop professional looking reports and more

3. 3 Four main components of Excel Worksheets: Allow users to enter, calculate, manipulate, and analyze data (numbers and text). Worksheet means the same as Spreadsheet. Charts: Excel can draw a variety of charts.

4. 4 Four main components of Excel Lists: Lists organize and store data. You can sort, search, and select data. Web Support Allows users to save Excel worksheets in html format

5. 5 How Excel Works When Excel starts it creates a new blank workbook, called book1. The workbook is like a notebook. Inside the workbook are sheets, which are referred as worksheet. The worksheet is organized into a rectangular grid.

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7. 7 Terminology Column Heading: A column letter above the grid identifies each column Row Heading: A row number on the left side of the grid identifies each row Cell: is the basic unit of a worksheet. It is where a column and row meet. Each worksheet in a workbook has 256 columns and 65536 rows

8. 8 Terminology Cell Reference: Identifies each cell uniquely. It is the letter from the column heading and the number from the row heading. Active cell: the cell that you are currently in Formula Bar: As you typed Excel displays the entry in the formula bar

9. Office 2003 Introductory Concepts and Techniques M i c r o s o f t Excel Project 1 Complete