Spreadsheet Software Tutorial PDF
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This document provides a tutorial on spreadsheet software. It explains the basic functions, features, and examples related to spreadsheets. It also includes examples of various spreadsheet softwares such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc, Google Sheets and Zoho Sheet. Lastly, it highlights the steps to use conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel and data analysis in Excel
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SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Lesson 3 SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Spreadsheet software allows you to do projects that require repetitive calculations such as budgeting and tracking your money spending. It is useful for what-if analysis. SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE It also generates various graphs and charts based on...
SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Lesson 3 SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Spreadsheet software allows you to do projects that require repetitive calculations such as budgeting and tracking your money spending. It is useful for what-if analysis. SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE It also generates various graphs and charts based on the data in your spreadsheet. Lastly, it has tools to create electronic worksheets. A worksheet is composed of columns and rows. EXAMPLES OF SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Microsoft Excel enables users to format, organize and calculate data in a spreadsheet. By organizing data using software like Excel, data analysts and other users can make information easier to view as data is added or changed. Excel contains a large number of boxes called cells that are ordered in rows and columns. EXAMPLES OF SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE OpenOffice Calc is the spreadsheet part of the OpenOffice software package. Calc is similar to Microsoft Excel, with almost the same abilities. Calc is capable of opening and saving spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel's file format. EXAMPLES OF SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Google Sheets is a spreadsheet application and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. Google Sheets is available as a web application; a mobile app for: Android, iOS, and as a desktop application on Google's Chrome OS. The app is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats. EXAMPLES OF SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE Zoho Sheet is an online spreadsheet application that helps you create and share powerful spreadsheets with your team in real time. It helps you collect, clean, organize, share, analyze, and visualize your data with ease and efficiency KEY FEATURES OF EXCEL CONDITIONAL FORMATTING FUNCTION It is simple to highlight specific values or make specific cells easy to find with conditional formatting. This modifies a cell range's look according to a condition or set of criteria. To draw attention to cells that have values that satisfy a specific requirement, you can utilize conditional formatting. Alternatively, you can format a range of cells and change the format exactly when the value of each cell changes. This is the step-by-step process of using Conditional Formatting function in Microsoft Excel; Select the range of cells, the table, or the whole sheet that you want to apply Conditional Formatting to. Click conditional Formatting in the Home tab. 3. Point to Highlight Cells Rules, and then click Text That Contains. 4. Type the text that you want to highlight, and then click OK. 2. DATA ANALYSIS Data analysis is a feature in a spreadsheet that enables you to better understand your data by using natural language queries to ask questions about your data without the need to create complex algorithms. It can also do high - level visual summaries, trends, and patterns. You will utilize a spreadsheet model for data analysis in order to investigate several options. One term for models is "what-if" scenarios. 2. DATA ANALYSIS You will utilize a spreadsheet model for data analysis in order to investigate several options. One term for models is "what-if" scenarios. This is the step-by-step process of using Data Analysis feature in Microsoft Excel: Simply select a cell in a data range then select the Analyze Data in the Home tab. Analyze Data in Excel will analyze your data and return interesting visuals about it in a task pane 2. For more specific information, enter a question in the query box at the top of the pane, and press Enter. 3. Analyze Data provides answers with visuals such as tables, charts or Pivot Table/Chart, that can then be inserted into the spreadsheet.