Introduction to

Excel

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 Worksheet
Basics

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Worksheets
 Excel’s main screen is
called a
“worksheet”.

 Each worksheet is
comprised of many
boxes, called “cells”.

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Organize Information
 You can organize
information by typing
a single piece of data
into each cell. (see
next slides)

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 How to Enter Information

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 Selecting a Cell
 “Select” a cell by
clicking on it once
(don’t double click).

 You can move from

cell to cell with the
arrow keys or by
pressing the “Enter”
key.

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 Entering Information / The Formula Bar
 To enter information in a
cell, just start typing.

 When you are done either

 Press the Enter Key
 Press an arrow key
 Click on the “check
button” (only visible when
entering data into a cell)

 The information in the

selected cell is also displayed
in the “formula bar” above
the worksheet.

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Double Click to Modify a Cell
 To modify the contents of
a cell double click on the
cell.
 Then use the right, left
arrow keys and the Insert
and Delete keys to modify
the data. Double click to
 When you are done: change “hi there” to
“hello there”
 Press the Enter key
or
 Click on the check box.

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 Names of Rows, Columns and Cells

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 Column Names (letters) & Row Names
(numbers)
 The columns of the
worksheet are named
with letters
 The rows are named
with numbers

Selected
Cell

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 Cell Names (ex. B4) Name Selected
 The name of a cell is a combination of the Box Cell
Letter Of The Column that the cell is in
followed by the Number Of The Row
that the cell is in.

 Example: the selected cell in the picture is

named B4 (NOT 4B)

 Excel automatically shows the the name of

the currently selected cell in the
“name box” (located above the
worksheet).

 The letter must come first (i.e. B4, NOT

4B) and there may NOT be any spaces
between the letter and the number.

 We will learn later why it is important to

understand how to name cells.

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 Longggggggg Data

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Information that is “too wide” for a cell
 The word “Name” is in cell A5
 The words “Hours Worked” are in
cell B5 (NOT in cell C5).
However, since the information is
too wide for cell B5, it looks like
it extends into cell C5.
 You can determine that the
“Hours
information is really only IN Worked” is
cell B5 by selecting cell B5 and in cell B5
(look at
looking at the formula bar and formula bar)
then selecting cell C5 and
looking at the formula bar.
“Hours
Worked” is
NOT in cell
C5 (formula
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bar is empty)
 Information that is “Chopped
 If there is information in • You can see the
Off”
the cell to the right, then complete data by
the original cell still selecting the cell and
contains all of the data, looking in the formula
but the data appears to be bar.
“chopped off ”.

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 Change the Width of a Column or the
Height of a Row

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Make a column wider Drag column
separator to the
right
 To make Column B wider,
point the cursor to the column
separator between columns B
and column C.
 The cursor changes to a
“Double headed arrow”.
 Now, click the left mouse
button and without letting go
of the button, drag the
separator to the right to make
the column wider (or to the left to
make the column narrower).
Column is now wider
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Getting the Exact Width
 To get the “exact” width, Double click here
double click on the separator
instead of dragging it.

Column is now EXACTLY the correct width

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Resizing a Row
 Make a row
taller or
shorter by
dragging the
separator
between the
rows.

 Click and Row is now

drag here to taller
resize row 5.

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Putting an “Enter” inside a cell
Step 1: Originally
“Hours Worked”
 To add a new line is on one line.
inside a cell
 Double click inside the
cell where you want the
new line. Step 2: Double click
to edit cell and then
 Press Ctrl-Enter (i.e.
press Ctrl-Enter
hold down the Ctrl key
and press Enter while
still holding down
Ctrl).
 When you are done
editing, press Enter Step 3: Press Enter
(without holding down (without Ctrl) to
Ctrl) to accept the accept the changes.
changes.
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 Basic Formatting
(e.g. bold, colors, fonts, etc)

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Formatting Cells
 Select one or more cells and then click on any of the formatting buttons (see below) to
change the formatting of the selected cells.
 Formatting buttons: show fewer decimal points (ex.
10.507 is displayed as 10.51)
These change the way show more decimal points (ex.
numbers are displayed 10.507 is displayed as 10.5070)
in cells. (these don’t
affect words). indent within cell
put border around cell(s)
center color of cell
font font color of
name size left justify right justify text in cell

bold center & merge cells

(will explain later) remove indent
italics
show with commas (e.g.
click on underline 12345 becomes 12,345) click on
downward downward
pointing arrows show as percent (ex.
pointing arrows
for other font 0.5 becomes 50%)
for other colors
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sizes (ex. 1000.507 becomes $1000.50) styles
 Example – unformatted worksheet
 Unformatted worksheet – see next slide for formatting.

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Example –making cells bold
 Click on cell A1 and drag to cell A3.
 Then press the Bold button to make cells A1,A2,A3 bold.
 You could also press the font or background color buttons to change the color or apply
any other formatting you like (this is not shown below).

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 Other Ways of Selecting More Than
One Cell
 To select a large range of cells, click on the upper left cell in
the range. Then hold the shift key and click on the lower right
cell in the range.
 You can select different “non-contiguous” areas of cells by
holding down the Ctrl key while clicking and dragging.

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Selecting Non-Contiguous Ranges
 Click and
drag to
select the
first range.

 Ctrl-click
and drag to
select
additional (This cell is also selected
even though it appears
ranges white).

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 Selecting entire Rows, entire Columns
or all cells on the worksheet.
 To select an entire column, click on the letter for the column
header. To select several columns, click on the header for the
first column and drag to the right.
 To select an entire row, click on the number for the row
header. To select several rows, click on the header for the first
row and drag down.
 To select all of the cells on the spreadsheet, click on the
upper left hand corner of the spreadsheet (where the column
headers meet the row headers)

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Select Entire Columns/Rows/Worksheet
To select ENTIRE COLUMN B To select ENTIRE ROW 2
click on “B” column header click on “2” row header

Click Click

To select ROWS 2,3 and 5,6,7

To select COLUMNS B,C,D  click on “2” row header, drag down,
click on “B” column header and drag to right  then Ctrl-Click on “5” row header and drag down
drag Click and drag down
Click
then Ctrl-Click
and drag down

To select COLUMNS B,C and F,G,H

 click on “B” column header, drag to right, To select ENTIRE WORKSHEET
 then Ctrl-Click on “F” column header and drag right click on select worksheet button
Ctrl-
Click (in corner between “1” and “A” buttons)
drag Click drag Click

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 Example - continued
 Step 1: Click on
row header for
row 5

 Step 2:
Ctrl-click on row-
header for row 11

 Step 3: Press Bold

button or type
ctrl-b

 Note: After being

“bolded”,
the word
“Employee” is now
too wide for the
column, so make
the column wider
if necessary (this
step is not shown).

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 More Advanced Formatting

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Format Cells
 Using the formatting buttons only give
you a limited amount of formatting
ability.
 For more formatting ability, select one or
more cells and right click on the
selection. Then choose “format cells”
from the popup menu.
 Choose options from the Number,
Alignment, Font, Border and Patterns
tabs and press OK to change the way your
information looks on the screen.
 The Protection tab is used to lock cells so
that their contents can’t be modified.
 We will not go into the details of using
the format cells dialog box at this time
but you should be able to figure out most
of it by yourself.

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 Formatting changes how things LOOK,
not how they WORK.
 NOTE: you will probably not understand this slide until after
you learn about Excel Formulas. Formulas are covered later
in this presentation.
 When you change the format of a cell, Excel still
“remembers” the original value.
 Excel will use the un-formatted value when calculating
formula values.
 Example: if you change numbers to appear with fewer
decimal points the original number with all of its decimal
points are used in calculations.

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 Formulas

The bread and butter of Excel

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 Excel Formulas
 You must have an equals sign ( = ) as the first character in a
cell that contains a formula.
 The = sign tells excel that the contents of the cell is a
formula
 Without the = sign, the formula will not calculate anything.
It will simply display the text of the formula.

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 Formulas - correct

formula with = sign After pressing ENTER

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 Missing = sign

Missing = sign! After pressing ENTER

Before pressing enter (no change - not a function)

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 Types of operations
 You can use any of the following operations in a formula:
operation symbol example
addition: + =a1+3
subtraction: - =100-b3
multiplication: * =a1*b1
division: / =d1/100
exponentiation ^ =a2^2
negation - =-a2+3
(same symbol as subraction)

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 Explicit (literal) values and cell
references
 You can use both explicit values and cell references in a
formula
 An explicit value is also called a literal value

 Formula with only cell references: =a1*b1

 Formula with only literal values: =100/27

 Formula with both cell references and literal values:

=a1/100

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 Errors in Formulas

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 Common Errors
 The following are some errors that may appear in a spreadsheet (there are others too).

 #######
 Cell is too narrow to display the results of the formula. To fix this simply make the column wider and the
“real” value will be displayed instead of the ###### signs. Note that even when the ###### signs
are being displayed, Excel still uses the “real” value to calculate formulas that reference this cell.

 #NAME?
 You used a cell reference in the formula that is not formed correctly (e.g. =BB+10 instead of =B3+10)

 #VALUE!
 Usually the result of trying to do math with a textual value. Example: =A1*3 where A1 contains the
word “hello”

 #DIV/0!
 Trying to divide by zero. Example: =3/A1 where A1 contains 0 (zero)

 Circular Reference
 Using a formula that contains a reference to the cell that the formula “lives in”. Example: putting the
formula =A1+1 in cell A1 or putting the formula =SUM(A1:B2) in any of the cells A1, B1, A2, B2

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 Order of Operations

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 Complex formulas
 You can use several operations in one function
 You can group those operations with parentheses

 Examples

=3*2+1

=c1*(a1+b1)

=(100*a2-10)+(200*b3-20)+30

=(3+2*(50/b3+3)/7)*(3+b7)

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 Order of operations
 When using several operations in one formula, Excel follows
the order of operations for math.
 first: all parentheses - innermost first
 second: exponents (^)
 third: all multiplication (*) and division (/). Do
these starting with the leftmost * or /
and work to the right.
 fourth: all addition (+) and subtraction (-). Do
these starting with the leftmost + or -
and work to the right.

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 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
 The sentence "Please excuse my dear aunt Sally" is a popular
mneumonic to remember the order of operations:
Menumonic Meaning
 Please parentheses

 Excuse exponents

 My Dear mulitplication and division

(going left to right)

 Aunt Sally addition and subtraction

(going left to right)

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 Order of operations
 The value of

3+2*5

is

13

NOT 25!

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Order of operations
3 + (100 - 20) / 10 - 6 * 2 / 4 + 9

3 + 80 / 10 - 6 * 2 / 4 + 9

3+ 8 - 6 * 2 / 4 + 9

3 + 8 - 12 / 4 + 9

3+8 - 3 + 9

11 - 3 + 9

8+9

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answer: 17
 Cntrl-`
 To see the formulas in the worksheet
 Press the Cntrl key at the same time as you press the ` key (i.e.
Cntrl-`)
 Press Cntrl-` again to see the values

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Functions

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 What is a function?
 A function is a "named operation"
 Functions have
 a name
 parentheses
 parameters/arguments inside the parentheses
 The words parameter and argument mean the same thing
 you can have many parameters for one function separated with commas
(,)
 The number of parameters is one more than the number of commas.

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 The SUM function
 Examples

Function Result
=SUM(1,2,3,4,5) 15

=SUM(a1,b1,c1) a1+b1+c1

=SUM(9,a1,b2,5,c1) 9+a1+b2+5+c1

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 Terminology
SUM(1,2,3,4,5)
 The name of the function is "SUM"

 The parameters or arguments to this function are 1,2,3,4 and 5

 The entire thing, i.e. SUM(1,2,3,4,5), is a function call

 The value of this function call is 15.

Another way to say this is that this function call returns 15.

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 Ranges (e.g. a1:c3)

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Ranges
 A rectangular box of cells is called a “range”.
 The name of a range is
 the name of the upper left cell of the range
 Followed by a colon :
 Followed by the lower right cell of the range
 Example: A1:B2 is shorthand for A1,A2,B1,B2
 See next slide for more examples

A1:B2

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Examples of Range Names
 Examples
C3:E10

B2:B5

B3:E3

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 Using a range as a parameter
 Ranges can be specified as a parameters to a function call.
 Both of the following function calls produce the same result
as =a1+b1+c1+a2+b2+c2+a3+b3+c3+a4+b4+c4
however the 2nd version uses a range and is much shorter.

without a range
=SUM(a1,b1,c1,a2,b2,c2,a3,b3,c3,a4,b4,c4)

with a range
=SUM(a1:c4)

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 Function calls with multiple parameters
 You can include multiple ranges and cells as parameters

 Example: the following function call has 3 parameters.

There are two ranges (a1:b2 and c4:c7), one number
(100) and one cell reference (d3)

=SUM(a1:b2,100,c4:c7,d3)

Is the same as:

=SUM(a1,a2,b1,b2,100,c4,c5,c6,c7,d3)

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 Other Functions

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 Other functions
 Click the function button to see the available functions:

Function buton
brings up the
function dialog box
(see next slide)

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Warning: this slide was created using
Excel 2000. The dialog box in later
versions of Excel looks a little different,
but it has the same functionality.
Function dialog box
categories Functions for the selected category
(i.e. groups of functions)

Description
of currently
selected
function

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 Function Editor
 Double click on the function name to get a dialog box that
helps you enter values for the parameters of the function.
(see next slide)

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 Function Editor
Put values for the parameters in When you press OK, this will create
the edit boxes. the function call:
AVERAGE(2,a1:c2,f13)

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 Example
 AVERAGE

formula that contains a function value

=AVERAGE(2,4,10,4) 5
=AVERAGE(a1,f32) (a1+f32) / 2
=AVERAGE(a1:c1) (a1+b1+c1) / 3
=AVERAGE(a1:c1,10) (a1+b1+c1+10) / 4

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Combining Functions and other values in a
single formula

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 Functions and other values
 You can combine functions, cell references and literal values
to make a complex Excel formula
 Examples
=3 + b23 * SUM(d20:g20)
=SUM(a1,100) * AVERAGE(d10:j10)
=100 / ( AVERAGE(b2,c2,d30) + AVERAGE(f1:f20) )

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Other Types of Cell References

References to entire ROWs

References to entire COLUMNs
References to cells or ranges on other worksheets (i.e. tabs)

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 Entire Rows (e.g. 2:2 or 2:4)
 A cell reference of the form <rowName>:<rowName> refers to the range
of all the cells for those rows.

 Example:
 The reference, 2:2, refers to all of the cells on the 2nd row.
 The following formula adds up all of the values on the 2nd and 4th rows of the
spreadsheet:

=sum(2:2,4:4)

 Another Example:
 The reference, 2:4, refers to all of the cells on the 2nd , 3rd and 4th rows,.
 The following formula adds up all of the values on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th , 10th, 11th , 12th, 13th,
14th and 15th rows of the spreadsheet:

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 Entire Columns (e.g. B:B or B:D)
 A cell reference of the form <colName>:<colName> refers to the range of
all the cells for those columns.

 Example:
 The reference, B:B, refers to all of the cells in the 2nd column.
 The following formula adds up all of the values in the 2nd and 4th columns of the
spreadsheet:

=sum(B:B,D:D)

 Another Example:
 The reference, B:D, refers to all of the cells in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th columns.
 The following formula adds up all of the values in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th columns of
the spreadsheet:
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 References to cells on other
worksheets
 Cell on another sheet: sheetName!cellReference
 Range on another sheet: sheetName!range
 Row on another sheet: sheetName!row:row
 Column on another sheet: sheetName!column:column

 If a sheet name has a space in it, you must

surround the sheet name with apostrophes (i.e.
single quotes)

 Examples
sheet2!a1
sheet2!b4:c8
'2002 Forecasts'!f3:f10
=sum('2002 Forecasts'!f3:f10)
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=sum('2202 Forecasts'!f:f)
 More examples
 Add up values from 2 different sheets
=sum ( 'great stocks'!b2:c4, 'so so stocks'!b2:c4)

 This next one is a little confusing

=sum (a1,a!a1,b1:b4,b1!b4,c!c:c)

Explanation
a1 this is a cell reference on the current sheet
a!a1 "a" is the name of sheet. "a1" is a cell on the "a" sheet
b1:b4 this is a range on the current sheet
b1!b4 "b1" is the name of a sheet. "b4" is a cell on the "b1" sheet
c!c:c “c" is the name of a sheet. “c:c" is all of the cells in the c
column
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Absolute and Relative
Cell References

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 Absolute and Relative Cell
References
 By default, when you copy a formula that contains a cell
reference, excel will automatically adjust the cell reference.

 You can stop Excel from automatically adjusting the cell

reference by using one or more dollar signs ($) in the cell
reference. These are called absolute cell references.

 A cell reference without a dollar sign is a relative cell

reference.

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 Examples
 The following all refer to the same cell
d9
$d$9
$d9
d$9
 The only difference between these cell references relates to
what happens when you copy a formula that contains the cell
reference.

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 Relative Cell Reference
 d9 This is a "relative cell reference".
 Changing the column: If I copy this cell reference to another
cell:
 the "d" will increment one letter for every cell that I move over to the
right.
 The "d" will decrement one letter for every cell that I move over to the
left
 Changing the row: If I copy this cell reference to another cell:
 the "9" will increment by one for every cell that I move down.
 The "9" will decrement by one for every cell that I move up

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 Absolute cell reference
 $d$9 This is an absolute cell reference.
 If I copy a formula with this cell reference, the cell reference
will NOT change AT ALL.

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 Mixed References
 $d9 and d$9 These are "Mixed" cell
references:

 $d9
 The "d" will stay the same when you copy the cell, but the "9"
will change.

 d$9
 The "d" will change when you copy the cell, but the "9" will
stay the same.

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Data Types

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  Numeric

Data
values:
Types
any number
 operators: + - * / ^ %
 sample functions: sum( ), average( ), max( ), min( ) etc.

 Text (AKA Character or String)

 values: Any group of letters or numbers or special characters.
Prefix value in cell with an apostrophe ( ' ) to force a text value
 operators: & (concatenation)
 sample functions: right( ), left(), mid(), lower(), upper(), len(), etc

 Dates
 values: dates and times
operators: N/A
 sample functions: now( ), today( ), hour(), minute(), etc.

 Logical (AKA boolean)

 values: true false
 Operators: < > = <> <= >=
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 sample functions: if( ), and( ), or( ), not( ), isblank()
 Data Types for Values in Cells
 By default:
 a cell that contains a number is treated as numeric data
 a cell that contains a date is treated as date data (we'll see more
about this later)
 a cell that contains data which is
not numeric and not a date is treated as "text"

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 Text Data

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 Text / String / Character
 The following three terms all used to refer to "text" data. All
three terms mean the same thing.

 text data
 string data
 character data

 This presentation will generally use the term "text data" but
you should be familiar with the terms "string data" and
"character data"

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 Text data
 Text data is used to store general purpose text (e.g. names,
places, descriptions, etc)

 You can't do "math" with text values (obviously)

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 Text isn't part of numerical
calculations (obviously)
Formula to formula view (press Cntrl-`)
add up all
numbers in
column C

(Same
Spreadsheet)

values view (press Cntrl-`)

Text data in
C1 is not
included in
the Sum

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 Text Functions

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 Text Functions
 Many functions are used to manipulate text values.
 The following are only some of them
right( )
left( )
mid( )
concatenate( )
lower( )
upper( )
len( )

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 RIGHT, LEFT and MID functions

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 RIGHT function
 The RIGHT function is used to isolate a specific number of
“characters” from the right hand side of a text value.
 (example on next slide)

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 RIGHT ( <text>, <numCharacters>)
Formula View

Values View

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 RIGHT – numCharacters is optional
 The <numCharacters> parameter in the RIGHT function is optional.
If you don’t specify it the default is 1 (one).

Formula View

These produce the

same results.
Values View

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 LEFT
 The LEFT function is the same as the RIGHT function, but it
returns characters from the LEFT side of the value.

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 MID ( <text>, <startPosition> ,
<numCharacters>)
 MID is used to get values from the middle of some text.

 MID takes 3 parameters:

 The original text
 The position to start taking the new value from
 The number of characters to take for the new value

 Example on next slide

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 Example: MID ( <text>, <startPosition> ,
<numCharacters>)
 This example extracts the second through the fourth
characters from the original text value:

Formula View

Values View

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 Concatenation
( & ) and
CONCATENATE function

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 Concatenation (&)
 Use & to combine (or concatenate) two different text values

Formula View

Values View

Notice that there is no

space between the two
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values
 Concatenate many values
 You may concatenate many values together

Formula View

Values View

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 Concatenation with "literal" values
 You can also concatenate "literal" values.
 You must include the literal values inside quotes
 For example to display spaces in the "full name" in the
previous example you could use the following formula. Each
space that you want to display must be included in quotes.

=A2&" "&B2&" "&C2

(Don't forget any of the &'s )
 See next slide ...

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 Concatenating spaces - Example
 You can concatenate spaces into a formula

Formula View

Values View values

contain
spaces

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 LEFT( ) with & in same formula
 You can combine the results of different function calls with
concatenation.

Formula View

Values View

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 Putting it all together
 In this example we concatenate periods into the initials.

Formula View

Values View

The initials now contain

periods
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 CONCATENATE Function
 You can use the CONCATENATE function instead of the
ampersand (&).
 The following formulas are equivalent:

=A1&B1&C1

=CONCATENATE(A1,B1,C1)

 The CONCATENATE function can take as many parameters

as you like.

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 More Text Functions:
LOWER
UPPER
LEN

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 LOWER ( <textValue> )
UPPER ( <textValue> )
 LOWER converts text to lower case.
 UPPER converts text to upper case.
 Example:

Formula View

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 LEN ( <textValue> )
 LEN returns a numeric value equal to the number of
character in a text value (i.e. the “length” of the text value).
 Spaces ARE included in the length.
 Example

Formula View

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 Dates and Times

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How Excel Stores Dates
 Dates are stored in Excel as the number of days since Dec 31, 1899 for
that date. (ex. Jan 1, 1900 is stored as the number 1).
 To see this, type a date in a cell and then press Ctrl-` to see the “formulas
view”.
 Example
 Values View
Dates become
numbers in
“formulas
view”

 Formulas View

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 Times and Dates in the same Cell
 A cell can contain both a date and a time.

 The value of both the date and the time is stored internally as a single decimal number.

 The whole number portion represents the DATE and is the number of days since Dec.
31, 1899

 The decimal part represents the TIME and is the fraction of the day that has elapsed.

 Examples:

 Jan 1, 1900 at 12AM is 1.0 (i.e. 1 day since Dec 31, 1899 and 0 percent of the day elapsed so
far)

 Jan 1, 1900 at 12PM is 1.5 (i.e. 0.5 of the day elapsed)

 Jan 2, 1900 at 12PM is 2.5 (i.e. 2 days since Dec. 31, 1899)

 Feb 1, 1900 at 1:05 PM is 32.5451388888889 (i.e. 32 days since Dec 31, 1899 and
104 0.5451388888889 of the day elapsed by 1:05 PM. This makes sense as it is a little past noon so a
little more than half of the day elapsed.
 Times and Dates - Example
 Values View

 Formulas View

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 Date Arithmetic
 You can do arithmetic with dates.
 Add and subtract days by adding and subtracting whole numbers.
 Add and subtract times by adding and subtracting fractional
values.

 Examples
=A1+7 (one week after the date in A1)
=A1-5*7 (5 weeks before the date in A1)
=A1- (1/24) (one hour before the time specified in A1)
=A1+ (3/24) (three hours after the time specified in A1)
=A1+2.5 (two and a half days after the time specified in A1)
=A1-A2+1 (the # of days between the date in A1 and the date in A2)

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Formatting cells with Dates and Times
 Right click on the cell and choose
“Format Cells”
 From the “Category” list in the
“Number” tab either
 Choose “Date”, “Time” or “Custom”
and choose an appropriate looking
format

OR

 If you choose “General” or “Number”,

the internal number for the
Date/Time will be displayed in the
spreadsheet even in the “values” view.
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 Logical (AKA boolean) values

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 TRUE and FALSE
 A logical value can be one of only two values

TRUE

or

FALSE

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 TRUE
 The following statements are TRUE:

Fish live in water.

Deer live on land.

 The following statements are also TRUE:

3 is greater than 2
2 is less than 3
2 is less than or equal to 3
2 is less than or equal to 2
3 is greater than or equal to 2
3 is greater than or equal to 3
2 is equal to 2
2 is not equal to 3
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 FALSE
 The following statements are FALSE:

Fish live on land.

Deer live in water.

 The following statements are also FALSE:

2 is greater than 3
3 is less than 2
3 is less than or equal to 2
2 is greater than or equal to 3
2 is equal to 3
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 Logical operators
 In Excel the following "operators" are used
Operator Meaning
> greater than
< less than
>= greater than or equal to
<= less than or equal to
= equal to
<> not equal to
 Examples
3>2 true
3<2 false

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 Logical Formulas
Formula View Values View

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 Same formulas, different values
Formula View Values View

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 IF Function

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 Parameters for IF function

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 IF function
Formula View Values View

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 IF with a numeric result

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 IF with a numerical result
Formula View Values View

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AND

OR

NOT

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 AND
 The following is TRUE

Fish live in water AND deer live on land.

 The following are all FALSE

Fish live in water AND deer live in water.

Fish live on land AND deer live on land.
Fish live on land AND deer live in water.

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 AND function

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 AND
Formula View Values View

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 IF with AND - nested function calls
 You can use an AND inside of an IF.
 This is called a NESTED FUNCTION CALL
 Example

=IF( AND (A2>A3,B2<>B3) , 500, 1000)

AND is "nested" inside of the IF

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 IF with AND - parameters
Parameters for IF function:

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 IF with AND - spreadsheet views
Formula View Values View

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 AND function
 Takes any number of parameters
 Returns TRUE if ALL of the parameters evaluate to TRUE
otherwise returns FALSE.

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 OR and NOT functions

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 OR
 Takes any number of parameters
 Returns TRUE if ANY of the parameters evaluate to TRUE
otherwise returns FALSE

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 NOT
 Takes ONLY ONE parameter
 Returns the "opposite" of the value of the parameter
 returns FALSE if the parameter value is TRUE
 returns TRUE if the parameter value is FALSE

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 Examples of Complex Nested Function
Calls
 =IF(AND(A2>A3, OR(B2=B3,C2<C3)), 500, 1000)

 =IF(NOT(AND(A2>A3, OR(B2=B3,C2<C3))), 500, 1000)

 =IF(AND(A2>A3, NOT(OR(B2=B3,C2<C3))), 500, 1000)

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 Other Logical Functions:
ISBLANK

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ISBLANK( <value> )
 ISBLANK returns TRUE if the value is blank and false otherwise. (see
example below) Total will be
wrong if
quantity is
blank (since
a blank is
normally
Total will be correct even if quantity
treated as
is blank (quantity is assumed to be 1
zero)
Formula View in that case)

blank value
Values View

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 APPENDICIES

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 Using the mouse to create
formulas.

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 Click to choose cell references
 Once you type the equal sign (=) you can click with
your mouse to enter cell references into a formula.

Now you can click with your mouse to

enter cell references.

 Example on following slides

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Example: click to get cell reference
 Type a number in cell A1  Type a plus sign (+) sign and the
dashed line around cell A1
disappears.

 type an equal sign (=) in B1

 You can continue to fill out the rest

of the formula now:

 Click on cell A1.You will see a

dashed line around cell A1 and the
text “A1” (without the quotes) will
be entered into the formula in B1.  Press ENTER to get the result:
The dashed line indicates that this
is the cell reference being entered.
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Example: changing the cell reference
 Type numbers in cells A1 and B1  Click cell B1. The dashed line moves to cell B1
and the text in cell C1 changes to “B1”.You can
keep clicking on different cells until you click on
the right one.

 Type an equal sign (=) in C1

 Type a plus sign (+) sign. The dashed line around

cell B1 disappears.

 Click on cell A1.You will see a dashed

line around cell A1 and the text “A1”
(without the quotes) will be entered
 If you click on another cell now, a new cell
into the formula in C1. The dashed reference will be entered.
line indicates that this is the cell
reference being entered.

 You can continue to fill out the rest of the

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 Use mouse to enter other types of
cell references.
 Cell ranges:
 Click and drag on a cell to enter a cell range reference

 Cells on a different worksheet

 Click on a cell on another worksheet to enter a reference from
a different worksheet.
 Be sure to type the next symbol in the formula (e.g. a plus sign
(+) , a comma (,) , etc before you click on the original tab. If
you don’t then the formula will be incorrect (try it).

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 FORMATTING A CELL AS TEXT

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Numbers with leading zeros
Sometimes you desire to have to have zeroes displayed at the beginning of a number.

 For example, US social security numbers are made up of 9 digits. The first few digits may be zeroes.
 This causes in a problem in Excel. When you type in a number with leading zeroes into a cell, Excel
removes the leading zeroes when you press Enter.

 EXAMPLE:
If you type the following into a cell (before you press Enter)

When you press Enter you get this:

Leading
zeroes are
missing

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 See next slides for how to fix this …
 Formatting a cell to display as text
 To fix this problem you can “format” the cell to display as
“text” instead of as a “number”.
 The value will still be able to be used in calculations but it
will be displayed on the screen using the rules for text values
instead of the rules to display numbers
 One of the rules Excel uses to displaying numbers is to
remove leading zeroes.
 However, if a number displayed as "text" data then Excel
WILL display leading zeros.
 See next slide for instructions on how to do this …

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 Opening the "Format cells" dialog
box
 Select the cell or cells that you want to format as text.
 Right click on the selected cell(s) and choose the
following from the popup menu
format cells

or click on a cell and choose the following menu choice

format | cells

 Then you will see the "Format Cells" dialog box.

(See the next slide ...)
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"Format Cells" dialog box

 Choose
"Text" from
the
"Number"
tab and
press the
OK button.

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 Not a Perfect Solution …
 When you format the cell as “text” it will display the leading
zeroes (you must type them in again).
 However, Excel will warn you that a number is formatted
as text. (see next slide)

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 Result of Formatting a Number as
Text
 Excel indicates this issue with a
green triangle in the upper left
hand corner of the cell:

 If you select the cell you can see

the error message.

 You can have Excel to ignore

this type of “error” by choosing
the “Tools | Options” menu
choice and unchecking the
“Number stored as text” option
from the “Error Checking” tab.
(this solution is not shown on
this slide)
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 Another Option – using an
Apostrophe (‘)

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 Force a Cell to Display as Text by
Using an Apostrophe (')
 Another way to display leading zeroes in a number is to
type an apostrophe as the first character in the cell.
 When you press Enter, the apostrophe is NOT displayed
in the cell (it is displayed in the formula bar).
 The apostrophe tells Excel that the contents of the cell
should be treated as text.
 The apostrophe is similar to the = sign.
 The = sign tells Excel that the cell contains a formula.
 The apostrophe (‘) tells Excel that the cell contains a text value.

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 Results of Using an Apostrophe
 Type an apostrophe
followed by the SSN.
 Before pressing Enter you
can see the apostrophe.
 After pressing Enter you
can’t see the apostrophe
anymore and leading zeroes
remain.
However, Excel will warn
you that a number is
formatted as text via the
green triangle. (see earlier
slides)
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 Ignoring numbers in calculations

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 Ignoring numbers in calculations
 Typing an apostrophe (‘) as the first character in a cell with a
number has the additional effect of causing the number to be
ignored in calculations.

 NOTE: This does not happen when you format the cell that
contains a number to display as text.

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 Ignoring numbers in calculations.
 By default, all numbers are included in numeric
calculations.
 However, you can force a cell that contains a number to
be treated as text and not be included in calculations
with numeric functions (ex. SUM, AVERAGE, etc.) by
placing an apostrophe as the first
character in the cell

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 Example
Formula to formula view (press Cntrl-`)
add up all
numbers in
column D

(Same
Spreadsheet)

values view (press Cntrl-`)

The Year is
incorrectly
included in
the sum.

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 Example
To fix the problem you can
- continued
This will force NOTE: When you stop
add an apostrophe (') before the number to editing the cell, the
the data for the year (no space be treated as apostrophe will NOT be
necessary after the text (see next visible in the spreadsheet.
apostrophe). slide). However, it will be visible in
the formula bar.

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 Example - finished
The number for the year is The apostrophe in not visible in The apostrophe IS
now treated as text and is the spreadsheet (unless you're visible in the formula
not included in the sum. editing the cell). bar.

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 The End

Slides after this one are in progress – you can

ignore them

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 TODO

- Finish editing the following slides

- Move apostrophe stuff to the

appendix

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 Nested IF Functions
 TODO: add slides for nested IFs

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 Entering values in multiple sheets
at once.

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 Cell Names

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 Cell Names
 Insert | Name | Create

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PROTECTING
A
WORKSHEET / WORKBOOK

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 Advanced
Formatting

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 TODO: fill out this section
 TODO: fill out this section
 Using “format cells” dialog box
 Conditional Formatting
 Data validation

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