Excel for Beginners 2023: A Step-by-Step and Comprehensive Guide to Master the Basics of Excel, with Formulas, Functions, & Charts

By Gerald Stroud

Do you wish to improve your Excel proficiency and improve your potential for employment in the data-driven workforce of today? Search no further than Excel for Beginners 2023, the most comprehensive resource for learning Excel's essentials. This comprehensive and step-by-step guidebook is designed to assist you establish a solid foundation in Excel, whether you're new to the program or simply want to brush up on your expertise.

Excel for Beginners 2023 is going to guide you through all the basics of Excel, from building a spreadsheet to organizing data, from using formulae and functions to generating graphs and charts. It accomplishes this with simple explanations, comprehensible screenshots, and practical examples. You'll discover how to work with cells, ranges, and Excel's built-in tools for analyzing information and visualization.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael B. Byrd
• Release date: May 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9791222408217

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Introduction

The spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel is utilized for storing and examining statistical and numerical information.

The spreadsheet program Excel provides multiple features that allow you to carry out various operations, such as computations, pivot tables, graphing tools, macro coding, etc. It runs on multiple operating systems, including macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS.

An array of columns and rows linked together to form a table can be referred to as an Excel spreadsheet. Numbers are often used to identify rows and letters of the alphabet are usually assigned to columns. A cell is the intersection of a column and a row. The character denoting the column and the number indicating the row together form the address of a cell.

There are a lot of spreadsheet applications out there, however, Excel is the one that is widely used. It has been in service for over thirty years now, and throughout that time, it has undergone upgrades with a growing variety of functions.

The most appealing aspect of Microsoft Excel is that it can be utilized for many different company functions, such as tracking inventory and billing, forecasting, finance, data management, and business intelligence. Some of the things it is able to do for you are listed below:

●  Calculating

●  Changing Text

●  Charts and Graphs

●  Automating Workflows

●  Templates and Dashboards

●  Keeping and Importing Data

We all interact with figures in some capacity. Each individual has everyday costs, that everyone has to deal with the earnings that we make every month. Understanding one's earnings and expenditures is a prerequisite for reasonable budgeting.

Microsoft Excel can be helpful for gathering, analysing, and organizing such numerical information.

Chapter 1: What is Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a computer application that allows you organise, format and calculate information using several formulas on a spreadsheet system. It was designed by Microsoft and a part of the very popular Microsoft Office Suite and can be purchased via the internet with a subscription to the Office 365.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet system that works on both the Microsoft Windows operating system and Apple’s Mac operating system. The Microsoft Excel is a combination of cells categorised into rows and columns you can use to arrange and handle data. Subsequently, you can also use it to create macros, pivot tables, display information as charts, histograms and line graphs.

The Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that lets you to present data in various formats.

1.1 Uses of Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel an application that is used across companies and business functions to arrange and present data as well as some perform financial analysis.

Below is a list of some of the basic uses of the Microsoft Excel.

●  Data entry

●  Accounting

●  Programming

●  Financial analysis

●  Task management

●  Financial modelling

●  Time management

●  Data management

●  Charting and graphing

●  Customer relationship management (CRM)

1.2 History and Future of MS Excel

The Microsoft Excel application was released in 1985 with the original name of Multiplan. Competing with several other similar products back then such as the Lotus 1-2-3 from the Lotis Development Corp, Microsoft Excel played a central role in bookkeeping and record-keeping for enterprise operations.

Microsoft Excel, then Multiplan made it very easy to handle, process and present spreadsheet information. Although Lotus 1-2-3 introduced cell names and macros to spreadsheet, Multiplan introduced a graphical user interface (GUI) that allowed users to locate and point making use of a mouse.

Multiplan initially lost its popularity on the Microsoft Disk Operation System when compared to the Lotus 1-2-3 but with the release of its version 2.0 in 1987, 2 years after it initial release the new version began to outsell Lotus 1-2-3 and other competing spreadsheet products. By 1990, a third version was released with new features such as 3D charts, toolbars, outlining and drawing capabilities.

A 4th version came in in 1992 which introduced the auto fill function and a 5th version in 1993 that introduced the Visual Basic for Applications macros, enabling common day tasks to be automated.

Regular version releases and updates kept happening until a major one in 2007 that came with the version 12 release. With this release, Microsoft Excel introduced a new Ribbon menu system, functions that had been worked on, including a SmartArt set of diagrams, improved management of name variables, and more flexibility when it comes to graphs formatting.

Version 15, released in 2013 introduced more tools such as the Power Pivot, Power View, and flash fill, as well as a better multithreading capability. The most recent version, version 16 released in 2019 cements Microsoft Excel as the leading spreadsheet software tool with an estimated monthly user of 750 million to 1.2 billion worldwide.

1.3 Basic Features of the Microsoft Excel

●  Home: This presents the user with several functions to customise such as font styles, font size, font colour, alignment, background colour, formatting styles and options, insertion and deletion of rows and columns and other editing options

●  Insert: This feature allows the user to insert several elements such as images and figures, charts, graphs, table, style and sparklines. It also allows the users to format the header and footer option, add equation and symbols

●  Page Layout: This feature allows the user to change the page themes, orientation and customize the page setup

●  Formulas: This feature allows you to easily add several formulas to your table

●  Data: With data, you can easily add external information, access other data tools and filtering options

●  Review: Easily add comments to the spreadsheet and proofread your data table

●  View: Zoom in, zoom out, choose different