1. Entering Data in a Worksheet
Excel is a spreadsheet program. Spreadsheets allow easy entering and maintenance of data.
Companies often prepare budgets and reports and maintain a large amount of data
pertaining to its business. Excel can be used to maintain financial statistics, reports, balance
sheets etc. It offers features for quick creation of these statements. Besides offering the
features to maintain data, it also offers methods for performing calculations quickly and
efficiently and ways to analyze data, create consolidated reports, and for creating charts to
attractively present your data. Entering data is quite a simple process in Excel. You just
need to move around in the worksheet by using the keyboard keys and mouse and enter
data in the desired cells and save the worksheet so as to retrieve it later to work on it
again. You can open Excel from the programs menu and save the worksheet by selecting
the Save option from the File menu. This simulation will guide you through the process of
opening Excel and entering data in cells through various keys. It will also help you to save
the workbook at a specified location and close it.
Opening A New WorkBook
In Excel you can maintain a large amount of workbooks each of which can contain a number
of worksheets. This is similar to the way in which companies maintain registers that contain
different sheets for different data. Registers are thus equivalent to the Workbooks and the
sheets of the register are equivalent to the worksheets of Excel. Opening new workbooks in
Excel is easy. All you need to do is to select New option from the File menu. This will make
Excel open a blank new Workbook for you.This simulation will teach you how to open a new
workbook.
Manipulating A Worksheet
Editing of records is quite a routine task as data keeps on changing. Editing refers to the
correction of mistakes in data, copying or moving data to new location, inserting some new
records or adding some new columns in the worksheets. In Excel, you can easily edit your
data without messing up the work. You can make use of the Editing features of Excel very
easily. For copying and moving data, you can use the respective commands from the Edit
menu. For inserting new rows and columns you can select the Rows and Columns options
from the Insert menu. For deleting rows and columns, you can select the row or column you
want to delete and select Delete option from the Edit menu. This simulation will give you an
idea of some of the basic editing features of Excel like moving, copying, deleting data from
the worksheet and undoing the editing etc. It will also teach you to insert and delete rows
and columns in the worksheet.
Increasing Width And Height Of The Cells In A Worksheet
Increasing the width and height of cells may be frequently required, as the data does not
always fit into the existing cells. You can increase the width of columns by selecting
Columns option from the Format menu and then selecting the Width option. You can
increase height of cells by selecting the Rows option from the Format menu and then
selecting the Height option.This simulation will give you an idea on how to increase the
width and height of cells to accommodate data.
Formulas And Functions In Excel
For performing any kind of calculation, you need to use a formula. When you do it manually
you will need to be really careful in avoiding mistakes since these calculations can be very
crucial for the company. The formula and function feature of Excel yields quick and error-
free results. You can directly type a formula in the cell and perform calculations as per your
requirements or you can use a Function.For entering a formula, click on the cell where you
want to enter a formula, type an equal-to(=) sign to begin the formula, type the formula

2. and press the Enter key. The result of the calculation appears in the cell. There is one more
advantage of using Excel formulas. If you change the formula, then Excel will automatically
recalculate the result.A Function is a ready to use formula in which you don't need to type
the entire formula. Here you can use a function like SUM and perform the desired
calculation. For example, you can either use a formula like =b1+c1+d1 for calculating the
sum or you can use the SUM function (=sum(b1,b2,b3)).A function begins with an equal to
sign and can include comma separated cell coordinates to perform calculations.Excel offers
hundreds of Functions for use and you can do almost every type of calculation on your data.
It has a FuntionWizard to ease the entire process of using Functions. The function Wizard
can be run from the toolbar.This simulation will give you an elaborate idea on one of the
most important features of Excel, i.e. Formulas and Functions. It will also give you an
overall idea of making use of Formulas and Functions for performing different calculations,
using the AutoSum feature, the Function Wizard and Editing formulas.
Previewing And Printing A Worksheet
You can get a paper copy of your worksheet by using the Print option of Excel. However
before it is printed, it is worthwhile to take a look at your entire sheet to see how your
worksheet will look when printed. This lets you confirm that the worksheet will print the way
you want.You can preview your worksheet by selecting the Print Preview option from the
File menu. You can also specify certain Page settings for your worksheets like whether or
not the Gridlines will be printed on the page and whether or not the Worksheet will be
printed with Row and Column headings. You can specify these page settings by selecting the
Page Setup option from the File menu.After everything is done, you can print the Worksheet
by selecting the Print option from the File menu.This simulation teaches you to preview and
print your worksheet. It will also teach you some of the page setup options for printing
purpose.
Creating And Printing A Chart In Excel
You can create charts in Excel to visually and graphically present your data. Excel provides
you with the facility to create different kinds of charts such as Line, Bar or Pie to name a
few. Creating a chart is quite a simple process. First select the cells on which you want to
create a chart. |Click| on the Chart Wizard on the toolbar. The Chart Wizard lets you quickly
create charts by guiding you one step at a time. It also lets you specify the chart titles.
After creating the chart you can also edit it.You can also print your charts by selecting the
Print option from the File menu. This simulation will teach you to use the Chart Wizard of
Excel to quickly guide you through the entire process of creating charts on your data and at
the same time to print it. It will also teach you to format your chart title etc.
E-mailing A Worksheet
Often you need to E-Mail Financial statements and Reports. Obviously it is a time consuming
process, as you need to open the web site where you have an account, type the entire data
once again and send it. To save you from going into this long and tiring process, Excel
provides the feature of E-Mailing from within Excel itself.For E-mailing Reports select Send
to from the File menu or click on the E-Mail button on the toolbar.This simulation will teach
you to E-Mail a worksheet from within Excel itself.