{"id":198,"date":"2022-12-01T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-compappmgr\/chapter\/why-it-matters-microsoft-excel-basic-skills\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:31:31","slug":"why-it-matters-microsoft-excel-basic-skills","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-compappmgr\/chapter\/why-it-matters-microsoft-excel-basic-skills\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills","rendered":"Why It Matters: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills"},"content":{"raw":"\n

Why learn to complete basic skills in Microsoft Excel?<\/h2>\nImagine that you have a lot of business data. Perhaps you have names and addresses for a mailing list. Maybe you have inventory data or quarterly sales values. All this information could be kept in a Word document, but Microsoft Office actually has an extremely useful program for organizing, storing, and even manipulating data: Microsoft Excel.\n\nIn this module, you will learn the basics of using Excel, focused on rearranging information into tables and changing style elements. Before we begin, here is some key information about Excel to remember before we start using this program.\n
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  1. The entire Excel file is called a workbook. Each individual page of the workbook is called a worksheet. When you are actually working in Excel, the page in which you enter data is a worksheet. We will discuss worksheets in more detail later but just remember, a worksheet is like a page in Word.<\/li>\n \t
  2. Also just like in Word, Excel has a ribbon area at the top of the window with different tabs for different controls.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Why learn to complete basic skills in Microsoft Excel?<\/h2>\n

    Imagine that you have a lot of business data. Perhaps you have names and addresses for a mailing list. Maybe you have inventory data or quarterly sales values. All this information could be kept in a Word document, but Microsoft Office actually has an extremely useful program for organizing, storing, and even manipulating data: Microsoft Excel.<\/p>\n

    In this module, you will learn the basics of using Excel, focused on rearranging information into tables and changing style elements. Before we begin, here is some key information about Excel to remember before we start using this program.<\/p>\n

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    1. The entire Excel file is called a workbook. Each individual page of the workbook is called a worksheet. When you are actually working in Excel, the page in which you enter data is a worksheet. We will discuss worksheets in more detail later but just remember, a worksheet is like a page in Word.<\/li>\n
    2. Also just like in Word, Excel has a ribbon area at the top of the window with different tabs for different controls.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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