Microsoft Excel Explained

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By Victor Ashiedu

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This Itechguide explains Excel (Microsoft Excel). The guide starts with a detailed explanation of Excel. Then, it explains some of its features.

What is Excel?

What is Excel?

Microsoft Excel (part of Microsoft Office Suite) is a spreadsheet program for data analysis and manipulation. Excel allows you to create multiple worksheets. A combination of multiple worksheets is called a workbook.

Each worksheet records data in rows and columns. This Microsoft spreadsheet software holds millions of rows and columns of data – maximum of 16,384 columns and 1,048,576 rows. That is a lot of data! Read the full specifications and limits.

Microsoft Excel Explained

Features and Benefits of Excel

Features and Benefits of Excel

This section discusses the top features of this Microsoft spreadsheet tool. The features discussed here are for everyday users. Other advanced features have not been included.

Insert Tables, Illustrations and Chats

This tool allows you to insert Pivot tables, pictures, shapes and icons. This will help you present your data visually.

You can also insert different types of chats – 2-D, 3-D pie, and Doughnut chats – and represent your data with Line, Colum and Bar chats. Moreover, you can also insert Map chats – used to compare and show categories across geographical regions.

Finally, for this section, you can also insert links (web links), Comments, Textboxes, Word Arts and common symbols (including equations).

Perform Basic and Complex Calculations

With Excel, you can perform simple calculations like Summation, Multiplication, and Subscription. Moreover, you ca also perform complex calculations like Standard Deviations, Variance and more.

It also supports logical and conditional (AND, IF, etc) computations and Text (CONCAT, FIND, LEN, etc) calculations. Moreover, it also includes date and time functions (DATE, DAY, TIME, etc).

Support for Data Manipulations

Excel also has built-in data manipulation tools. You can sort and filter your data. For example, you can sort and order your data by a chosen column.

Moreover, you can add multiple sorting conditions. The sort function allows you to manage data with millions of rows of data.

You can also easily insert a filter. When you insert filtering, each column will display a drop-down arrow – allowing you to determine the data displayed at any point in time.

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Victor Ashiedu

Victor is the founder of InfoPress Media, publishers of Ilifeguides and Itechguides. With 20+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, his expertise spans Windows, Linux, and DevOps. Explore his contributions on Itechguides.com for insightful how-to guides and product reviews.

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