What You Need to Know About Excel
By: Hailey Martin
What is Excel?
Excel is a Microsoft Office Application that provides a place to set up spreadsheets and use formulas. It's a great tool for everyday business things such as taking inventory, keeping track of sales, client information, conducting and future sales and much more.
Formulas
Just add a "=" into the formula bar followed by a: SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, or a more complex function to manipulate cells. After function enter variables in parenthesis.
Graphs
Highlight any cells and make a bar, line, scatter, area, pie, stock, surface, or radar graph. Highlight data range to make into a graph. Excel is full of excellent looking graphing options for visual understanding.
Tables
Tables are really simple to make in Excel considering you start out already in a table like format. Use table formatting to create a great looking, usable table.
When can you use Excel?
You can use Excel for just about anything that you want to be organized and even functioning with formulas. In the workplace you see Excel used for almost everything such as: keeping inventory, calendar, keeping track of sales or clients, etc.