BASICS OF MS-EXCEL:

Microsoft Excel is a program that provides worksheets comprised of rows and columns.

Data can be stored in the worksheet, also called a spreadsheet, similarly to a Microsoft Word table, but the power of Excel is its ability to perform simple to complex mathematical calculations, and other functions.

The Excel Worksheet (Spreadsheet) and Workbook:

1. An Excel worksheet, or spreadsheet, is a two-dimensional grid with columns and rows.

2. The column names are letters of the alphabet starting with A, and the rows are numbered chronologically starting with the number one.

3. The cells in the first row are A1, B1, C1, and so on.

4. And the cells in the first column are A1, A2, A3, and so on. These are called cell names or cell references.

5. We use cell references when creating math formulas or functions. For example, the formula to add the contents of cells B2 and B3 together is: =B2+B3.