1. Presented by:
Stephanie Siam
Assistant Language Lecturer
Email: ssiam@squ.edu.om
Office 2033
15 February 2018

3.  Creating a Spreadsheet/ Worksheet
 Naming sheets
 Entering data
 Becoming familiar with Menus and Options
DAY 1:
INTRODUCTION & NECESSITY

4.  Create, format, and organize a Table
 Find/Search
 Replace
 Copy/Paste
 Sort (ABC & Numerical Order)
DAY 2:
SKILL-BUILDING

5.  Formula Bar
 How to locate and implement preset formulas
 Re-establishing formulas when cutting/copying/
pasting between sheets in a workbook
DAY 3:
TACKLING FORMULAS

6. WHAT IS MICROSOFT EXCEL?
Microsoft Excel is a computer software program
compatible with multiple operating systems. It used to
build and manage data, spreadsheets and workbooks. Its
main features are:
 Tables
 Graphs
 Charts
 Calculations
 Pivot tables
 Macro-programming via Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA)

7. THE IMPACT OF EXCEL ON MODERN
DATA COLLECTION AND MANIPULATION
• 1985 – Microsoft Excel introduced on the market
• Currently – Most-used spreadsheet program worldwide
• Used for formula-based calculations and other mathematical functions
In his article “Microsoft Excel For Teachers - Ideas for Using Microsoft Excel Worksheets
in the Classroom”, Fareed Siddiqui, PhD, explains
“Teachers can extract several benefits from Excel worksheets in
the classroom. […] [P]reparing lesson plans, grading papers,
creating graphs or tables and many more can be carried out
effectively and efficiently by using Microsoft Excel Worksheets
(2014).”

8. BENEFITS OF EXCEL FOR EDUCATORS
• Bring data together in one place
• Multiple spreadsheets
• Multiple data sets
• Identify trends
• Determine student, class, course and departmental averages
• Pinpoint strengths and weaknesses of individual students and whole groups
• Online access
• No need to be in your office to retrieve files
• Multiple users can edit at the same time

9. Please open Microsoft Excel and
select “Blank Workbook”.
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10. Create a Worksheet with One Spreadsheet (use
Class List w/Student IDs)
Upload Your Worksheet to the Moodle Course:
Excel with Excel (Enrolment Key: excel)

11. REFERENCES
Fish, Lauren. (2016). 5 Benefits of Microsoft Excel. Retrieved 1 February 2018, from
https://blogs.business.microsoft.com/en-gb/2016/07/08/top-5-benefits-microsoft-excel/
Laverty, S. (n.d.). Important of Microsoft Excel. Retrieved 1 February 2018, from
https://itstillworks.com/importance-microsoft-excel-1716.html
Microsoft Excel. (2018). from Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 February 2018, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#VBA_programming
Siddiqui, F. (2014). Microsoft Excel For Teachers - Ideas for Using Microsoft Excel Worksheets in the
Classroom. Retrieved 1 February 2018, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140823090813-
59817714-microsoft-excel-for-teachers-ideas-for-using-microsoft-excel-worksheets-in-the-
classroom/