Saturday, March 29, 2014

Introduction to Microsoft Excel and Creating First Excel File

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Microsoft Excel is one of the tools in the Microsoft Office Package suite; it is used to create spreadsheets. It has many in-built functions and tools to work with data and create different type of reports and dashboards. It also provided the feature to the users to work behind the existing tools and can enhance its capabilities. To implement functionality beyond a regular spreadsheet, Microsoft Visual Basic programming environment is provided with Microsoft Office Excel. This programming language is called as Visual Basic for Application (VBA).

In This Section:

§  What is Excel?
§  Why is it used?
§  Creating your first excel workbook.

What is Excel?

As mentioned above, Microsoft Excel is one of the tools in the Microsoft Office Package. It is a spreadsheet application, it have powerful tools to deal with the data and create different kinds of reports, dashboards, and tools.

Why is it used?

Almost every organization uses Excel for their day to day activities from requirement gathering to deliver and present the output using excel.
§  Preparing the different kinds of templates, Quality Checking Template, Process Flow Templates, Project ManagementTemplates, Cost Estimation Templates, etc…


§  Preparing the initial project plans and documents.
§  Preparing different kind of dashboards which includes rich visualized charts, tables and formats
§  Developing the tool to automate the repeatative task to increase the quality of the outputs and save the process time.

Creating your first excel workbook:

You can launch the Excel application in different ways and enter the data and then we can save the file in your desired location.
To open a new excel:
» Goto Start Menu
» Select All Programs
» Select Microsoft Office
» Select Excel
OR
» Open run dialog (ctlr+r)
» Type excel and then Enter

To save the file:
» Ctrl+S OR Choose Save from the File Menu of the Excel workbook
» Choose location
» Give the file name
» Click on the Save button to save the file

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