INTRODUCTION TO

EXCEL
INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Excel is the product of Microsoft Corporation, a technology
company, located in Redmond, Washington, United States. It
possess lot of different macro programming and calculations features. It is
interdisciplinary software and being used in every technological field of science.
It supports many file formats ranging from XPS, PDF to Microsoft 1997 file formats. It
includes File Menu tab, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon, Title Bar, Help,
Figure 1.1 Excel 2013
Row Bar, Column Bar, Status Bar, Sheet Area, View Buttons, and
Zoom
Controls.
Different calculation techniques and methods is also discussed in that LAB.

OBJECTIVE
Objective of this LAB is to touch base all the basics of Microsoft Excel.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
What is Microsoft Excel?

PROCEDURE

Figure 1.2 Microsoft

Microsoft Excel is one of the outstanding products of MICROSOFT CORPORATION.

Microsoft is a technology company, located in Redmond, Washington, United
States. And their specialities are to develops, licenses, manufactures, supports and
sells computer softwares.

What is Microsoft Excel?

Figure 1.3 Excel

Interface

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software that is developed by Microsoft for the

following operating systems and features respectively:

Microsoft Windows
MAC OS X
iOS

Salient Features:

Calculations
Graphing Tools
Pivot Tables
Macro Programming

Basic File Formats and Extensions:

Format

Table 1.1 Formats and Extensions

Extension

Excel Workbook
Excel Macro-enabled Workbook
Excel Binary Workbook
Excel Macro-enabled Template
Excel Add-in
Excel 97-2013
PDF
Web Page
XML

.xlsx
.xlsm
.xlsb
.xltm
.xlam
.xls
.pdf
.html
.xml

Excel 2013 Parts:

Workbook
Workbook is also called spreadsheet, whenever Excel is opened and the opened
workspace is called Excel Workbook.

Title Bar
Tile bar shows the name of the workbook.

Figure 1.4 Title Bar

File Tab

Figure 1.5 File Tab

Main Ribbon

Figure 1.6 Main

Ribbon

Active Tab

Figure 1.7 Active Tab

Menus Ribbon
Figure 1.8 Menus
Ribbon

Ribbon Groups

Formula Bar

Figure 1.9 Ribbon

Groups

You can write any formula in that bar.

Figure 1.10 Ribbon

Groups

Spreadsheets

Figure 1.11
Spreadsheets

Excel Help
Whenever you need any help in case of any problem, you can just press F1 button on

your keyboard.

Figure 1.12 Excel Help

Rows and Column Bars

Figure 1.13 Rows and

Column Bars

Text Formatting Tools

Insert TAB

Figure 1.14 Text Formatting

Tools

Figure 1.15 Insert TAB

Page Layout TAB

Figure 1.16 Page Layout

TAB

Formulas TAB

Figure 1.17 Formulas TAB

Basic Formulas
Mathematical Operators

=SUM(B3:B8)
Formulas Applications

=SUM(B3,-B4,-B6)

=(B3/B4)

Figure 1.18 Formulas

Applications

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

As result of all what we performed in the LAB within the range of Excel Basics, we
have learned much about Excel, its features, its usage and its scope in Industrial
Engineering, Manufacturing and Management.

CONCLUSION
What we have learned in the LAB, would help in operating Excel and its Plugins.