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MS Excel - spreadsheet skills
MS Excel Microsoft Excel provides an automated way of displaying any statistical data. It can be used to automatically compute for several factors that are not easy to notice especially when faced by a large data. Microsoft Excel includes several arithmetic and basic functions that help you compute faster.
MS Excel It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language. It can compute costs incurred in the creation of projects, or create tables for findings in the researchers, and then create reports for business or research that you are doing. It is also a collaboration tool for financial analysis or modelling.
6 Worksheets Excel’s main screen is called a “ worksheet ”. Each worksheet is comprised of many boxes, called “ cells ”.
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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You must have an equal 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. EXCEL FORMULA
11 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 subtraction)
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What is a function? A function is a "named operation" Functions have a name parentheses parameters/arguments inside the parentheses Many parameters for one function separated with commas (,) To find a list of all excel functions can be found on the Formula Tab >> Insert Function
Range – the cells where the counting will take place or the cells involved. Criteria – the label or value that determines if it is to be counted. - a (“”) quotation mark
Max – the highest value Max | Min | Average | Averageif | Min – the lowest/ minimum value FUNCTIONS
Average – a function used to compute for the average of the number of a range. Averageif – a function used to compute for the average of a range if a certain condition is met. =AVERAGEIF(range, criteria, [ average_range ]
Count and Sum Functions Count | Countif | Countifs | Sum | Sumif | Sumifs The most used functions in Excel are the functions that count and sum. You can count and sum based on one criteria or multiple criteria.
Count To count the number of cells that contain numbers, use the COUNT function. Countif To count cells based on one criteria (for example, higher than 9), use the following COUNTIF function.
Countifs To count cells based on multiple criteria (for example, green and higher than 9), use the following COUNTIFS function. Sum To sum a range of cells, use the SUM function.
Sumif To sum cells based on one criteria (for example, higher than 9), use the following SUMIF function (two arguments). To sum cells based on one criteria (for example, green), use the following SUMIF function (three arguments, last argument is the range to sum).
Sumifs To sum cells based on multiple criteria (for example, blue and green), use the following SUMIFS function (first argument is the range to sum).
22 Other function Mean – the result obtained by adding several quantities together and then dividing this total by the number (N) of quantities; the average Mean = SUM(range)/N or Mean =Average(range)
23 Other function Median – the middle value in a series of values =median(range)
24 Other function Standard Deviation – shows how much variation exists from the average. A low standard deviation indicates that the data point tend to be very close to the mean. A high standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a large range of values. = Stdev (range)
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