1.1. INTRODUCTION TO MS EXCEL
What is the Spreadsheet or Excel Excel is all about numbers! There’s almost no limit to what you can do with numbers in Excel, including sorting, advanced calculations, and graphing. In addition, Excels formatting options mean that whatever you do with your numbers, the result will always look professional! Data files created with Excel are called workbooks (in the same way as Word files are called documents). But where Word starts up with a single blank page, Excel files by default contain three blank worksheets. This gives you the flexibility to store related data in different locations within the same file. More worksheets can be added, and others deleted, as required. You’ll often hear Excel files referred to as spreadsheets. This is a generic term, which sometimes means a workbook (file) and sometimes means a worksheet (a page within the file). Why do I need a Spreadsheet? There are many reasons why you might need a spreadsheet. Here are few different scenarios: Scen