Scribd
Upload
64 views

Msoffice Excel 2007

This document provides an overview of key concepts in Microsoft Excel including cells, worksheets, workbooks, operators, functions and the order of operations. It defines common Excel terminology like cells, cell references, worksheets and workbooks. It describes the different types of operators in Excel like arithmetic, comparison, text and reference operators. It also explains the order in which Excel performs calculations in formulas and provides examples of commonly used functions like SUM, PRODUCT, QUOTIENT, MAX, MIN and COUNT.

Uploaded by

Genevev Reyes
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
64 views

Msoffice Excel 2007

This document provides an overview of key concepts in Microsoft Excel including cells, worksheets, workbooks, operators, functions and the order of operations. It defines common Excel terminology like cells, cell references, worksheets and workbooks. It describes the different types of operators in Excel like arithmetic, comparison, text and reference operators. It also explains the order in which Excel performs calculations in formulas and provides examples of commonly used functions like SUM, PRODUCT, QUOTIENT, MAX, MIN and COUNT.

Uploaded by

Genevev Reyes
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 4

MICROSOFT EXCEL TUTORIAL

MSOffice Excel 2007


Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating data.

Terminologies

Cell is the intersection point between a column and a row. A cell is the basic unit for storing data in the
spreadsheet.

Cell Reference - Sometimes referred to as a cell address, a cell reference consists of the column letter
and row number that intersect at the cell's location. Note that when listing a cell reference, the column
letter is always listed first.

An Excel worksheet is a single spreadsheet that contains cells organized by rows and columns. A
worksheet begins with row number one and column A. Each cell can contain a number, text or formula.

A workbook is an Excel file that contains one or more worksheets.

About calculation operators


Operators specify the type of calculation that you want to perform on the elements of a formula.
Microsoft Excel includes four different types of calculation operators: arithmetic, comparison, text, and
reference

Types of operators

Arithmetic operators To perform basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, or


multiplication; combine numbers; and produce numeric results, use the following arithmetic operators.

Naguilian National High School


ICT Extension Project
E-Learning: Computer Literacy Program for Out-of-School Youth of Naguilian
MICROSOFT EXCEL TUTORIAL

ARITHMETIC OPERATOR MEANING (EXAMPLE)


+ (plus sign) Addition (3+3)
– (minus sign) Subtraction (3–1)
Negation (–1)
* (asterisk) Multiplication (3*3)
/ (forward slash) Division (3/3)
% (percent sign) Percent (20%)
^ (caret) Exponentiation (3^2)

Comparison operators You can compare two values with the following operators. When two values
are compared by using these operators, the result is a logical value either TRUE or FALSE.

COMPARISON OPERATOR MEANING (EXAMPLE)


= (equal sign) Equal to (A1=B1)
> (greater than sign) Greater than (A1>B1)
< (less than sign) Less than (A1<B1)
>= (greater than or equal to sign) Greater than or equal to (A1>=B1)
<= (less than or equal to sign) Less than or equal to (A1<=B1)
<> (not equal to sign) Not equal to (A1<>B1)

Text concatenation operator Use the ampersand (&) to join, or concatenate, one or more text strings
to produce a single piece of text.

TEXT MEANING (EXAMPLE)


OPERATOR
& (ampersand) Connects, or concatenates, two values to produce one continuous text value
("North"&"wind")

Reference operators Combine ranges of cells for calculations with the following operators.

REFERENCE MEANING (EXAMPLE)


OPERATOR
: (colon) Range operator, which produces one reference to all the cells between two
references, including the two references (B5:B15)
, (comma) Union operator, which combines multiple references into one reference
(SUM(B5:B15,D5:D15))
(space) Intersection operator, which produces on reference to cells common to the two
references (B7:D7 C6:C8)

Naguilian National High School


ICT Extension Project
E-Learning: Computer Literacy Program for Out-of-School Youth of Naguilian
MICROSOFT EXCEL TUTORIAL

The order in which Excel performs operations in formulas

Formulas calculate values in a specific order. A formula in Excel always begins with an equal sign (=).
The equal sign tells Excel that the succeeding characters constitute a formula. Following the equal sign
are the elements to be calculated (the operands), which are separated by calculation operators. Excel
calculates the formula from left to right, according to a specific order for each operator in the formula.

Operator precedence
If you combine several operators in a single formula, Excel performs the operations in the order shown in
the following table. If a formula contains operators with the same precedence — for example, if a formula
contains both a multiplication and division operator — Excel evaluates the operators from left to right.

OPERATOR DESCRIPTION
: (colon) Reference operators
(single space)
, (comma)
– Negation (as in –1)
% Percent
^ Exponentiation
* and / Multiplication and division
+ and – Addition and subtraction
& Connects two strings of text (concatenation)
= < > <= >= <> Comparison

Use of parentheses

To change the order of evaluation, enclose in parentheses the part of the formula to be calculated first. For
example, the following formula produces 11 because Excel calculates multiplication before addition. The
formula multiplies 2 by 3 and then adds 5 to the result.
=5+2*3

In contrast, if you use parentheses to change the syntax, Excel adds 5 and 2 together and then multiplies
the result by 3 to produce 21.

=(5+2)*3

In the example below, the parentheses around the first part of the formula force Excel to calculate B4+25
first and then divide the result by the sum of the values in cells D5, E5, and F5.

Naguilian National High School


ICT Extension Project
E-Learning: Computer Literacy Program for Out-of-School Youth of Naguilian
MICROSOFT EXCEL TUTORIAL

=(B4+25)/SUM(D5:F5)

Some MSOffice Excel Functions

The SUM function adds all the numbers that you specify as arguments.
For example, =SUM(A1:A5) adds all the numbers that are contained in cells A1 through A5. For another
example, =SUM(A1, A3, A5) adds the numbers that are contained in cells A1, A3, and A5.

The PRODUCT function multiplies all the numbers given as arguments and returns the product. For
example, if cells A1 and A2 contain numbers, you can use the formula =PRODUCT(A1, A2) to multiply
those two numbers together. You can also perform the same operation by using the multiply (*)
mathematical operator; for example, =A1 * A2.

The QUOTIENT function returns the integer portion of a division. Use this function when you want to
discard the remainder of a division.

Syntax
QUOTIENT(numerator,denominator)

The Max function Returns the largest value in a set of values.


Syntax
=MAX(number1,number2,...)

The Min function Returns the lowest value in a set of values.


Syntax
=MIN(number1,number2,...)

The COUNT function counts the number of cells that contain numbers, and counts numbers within the
list of arguments. Use the COUNT function to get the number of entries in a number field that is in a
range or array of numbers. For example, you can enter the following formula to count the numbers in the
range A1:A20:
Syntax
=COUNT(value1, [value2],...)

Naguilian National High School


ICT Extension Project
E-Learning: Computer Literacy Program for Out-of-School Youth of Naguilian

You might also like