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Understanding Microsoft Excel Lesson 1 Microsoft Excel 2010 Slide 2 History of Excel, Part 1 Slide 3 History of Excel, Part 2 Slide 4 Learning Goals The goal of this lesson is for students to successfully explore and describe the Excel window and to create a new worksheet. The student will learn to edit a worksheet, save the workbook and properly exit the program. Slide 5 Learning Objectives On completion of this lesson, students will be able to do the following: Create a workbook Understand Microsoft Excel window elements Select cells Enter text, numbers, and dates in a worksheet Enter a range of data Edit cell contents Adjust the size of rows and columns Align cell contents Find and replace cell contents Insert and delete cells, rows, and columns Cut, copy, paste, and clear cells Use additional paste techniques Move between worksheets Name and save a workbook Open a workbook Rename a worksheet Preview and print a worksheet Close a workbook and exit Excel Slide 6 What is Excel? Lets you put numbers into a spreadsheet so that you can do things such as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis quickly. Uses: Logging my daily workouts Creating a household budget Calculating grades Slide 7 Starting Excel Clicking on an Icon on the Desktop Using the Start Menu What else??? Slide 8 Spreadsheet Terms Spreadsheet The type of program that is used to perform calculations. Worksheet A blank page in a spreadsheet file. Workbook A collection of worksheets. Slide 9 More Spreadsheet Terms Formula Bar Row Headers Column Headers Active Cell Name Box Title Bar Slide 10 Opening and Closing Worksheets When you first open Excel, you see one blank worksheet. The visible worksheet is actually part of a workbook that contains three sheets. (Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3). Close a worksheet Open a blank worksheet Slide 11