MS EXCEL
● Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
●It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
● The intersection of a row and column is called a Cell.
● The cell in which we are currently working is known as Active Cell.
● Microsoft Excel's native file formats are denoted either by a .xls or .xlsx file extension.
● A Worksheet is made of columns and rows, wherein columns run Vertically and rows run Horizontally.
● Up to Excel 2003, the standard amount of columns has been 256 and 65,536 rows.
● Excel 2007 onwards, the maximum number of rows per worksheet increased to 1,048,576 and the number of columns increased to 16,384.
● Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations
● The letter and number of the intersecting column and row is the Cell Address.
● Short cut key to insert a new worksheet in MS-Excel is ALT + Shift + F1 + or F11.
● Sheet tab is the tab at the bottom of the worksheet window that displays the name of the worksheet.
● A Microsoft office document that contains one or more worksheets is known as a Workbook.
Shortcut Keys of MS-Excel
Key. Description
F2. Edit the selected cell
F5. Go to a specific cell
F7. Spell check selected text and/or document
F11. Create chart
Ctrl + Shift + ; Enter the current time
Ctrl + ; Enter the current date
Shift + F3 Open the Excel insert. function window
Shift + F5. Bring up Find and Replace. box.
Ctrl + A. Select all contents of the worksheet
Ctrl + B. Bold highlighted selection
Ctrl + I. Italic highlighted selection
Ctrl + U. Underline highlighted selection
Ctrl + P. Bring up the print dialog box to begin printing
Ctrl + Z. Undo last action
Ctrl + F9. Minimise current workbook
Ctrl + F10. Maximise current workbook
Ctrl + F6. Switch between open workbooks/window
Ctrl + page up. Move between Excel worksheet in the same Excel document.
Ctrl + Page Down
Move between Excel worksheets in the same Excel document
Ctrl + Tab
Move between two or more open Excel files
Alt + =. Create a formula to sum all. of the above cells
Ctrl + ’. Insert the value of the above cell into cell currently selected.
Ctrl + Arrow key. Move to next section to text
Ctrl + Space. Select entire column
Shift + Space. Select entire row
