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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL
OBJECTIVE
1.0
What is Excel?
Excel 2013 is part of Office 2013 Suite release by Microsoft in 2013. The version
number of Excel 2013 is Excel version 15. It is a spreadsheet component in Office
2013.
Usage or features provided:
- Tracking investments, budget, invoices
- Graph/chart, analyze data
- Functions
- Macros
In Excel 2013, a number of improvement has been made compare to the previous
version. Several new features have been introduce. In this course, we will look into
the features.
1.1
Starting Excel
When you first start Excel 2013, you will be greeted with a start screen (refer
figure 1.1)
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From here you can open a Blank Workbook or selecting from a number of
templates available for usage. Click on Blank workbook. You will get like in
figure 1.2 below.
1.2
1.3
Like in Excel 2010, there is no more standardized menu in Excel 2013. Menu in
Excel 2013 is called ribbon. There are 7 ribbon menu in Excel 2013. The list are as
table 1.1 below
Ribbon Menu
Name
File
Home
Insert
Page Layout
Usage
Contains all features related to manipulating the file and
editing the layout of Excel. (e.g : Open File, Save File,
Options)
Contains all features to do the editing in the workbook. (e.g
: Font, Font Size, Paragraph)
Contains all features to insert objects into Excel workbook.
(E.g : table, pictures, Smart Art, graph)
Contains all features related to manipulating the page in the
workbook. Margins, paper size, print area are among the
features in this ribbon.
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Formulas
Data
Review
View
1.4
The worksheet
The workspace (or worksheet) is a place where you do all your work. All the data,
graphs, charts, tables will be put in here. The worksheet is consists of cells. In
Excel 2013, the limit of worksheet is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. The limit
is quite high for a normal usage but for data intensive utilization, it is quite a
medium size.
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2.1
MANIPULATING A WORKBOOK
Open a New Workbook
Two ways to open a new workbook (assuming Excel is now open with other
workbook).
The first way :
1. Click on File tab.
2. An Excel splash screen will appear (refer figure 2.1)
3. Click on New
The second way, is by pressing Ctrl+N. Make sure Excel is the active application
when you press the combination keys.
2.2
Save a workbook
When you use either of those 3 steps, Excel will open a splash screen (refer figure
2.4) on where we want to save the file. For this activity, click on My Documents.
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Excel will prompt a Save As windows (refer figure 2.5). Please rename the file as
Excel2013 Introduction.xslx and press Save.
2.3
Click on FileOpen. A list of Recent Workbooks will be shown (refer figure 2.6).
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If its not there, click on Computer icon. It will show a list of directories (refer
figure 2.7)
2.4
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Rename a worksheet
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2. It will highlight the name. Type Student Grade. After finish just press
Enter (refer figure 2.13)
2.6
Delete a worksheet
2.7
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2.8
Move or copy a worksheet is to allow the sheet to move inside the same workbook
or to the other workbook. To allow the sheet to move (or copy) to the other
workbook, we need to open the workbook. These are the steps to move or copy a
worksheet inside the same workbook.
1. Right click on the sheet you want to move or copy, and select Move or
Copy (as in figure 2.15)
2. Then a window will be shown (refer figure 2.16). Select (move to end)
on the window. Then click on OK button.
2.9
Hide a worksheet
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2. A window will be displayed that shown all the worksheet that you can
unhide (refer figure 2.19). Click on the worksheet that you want to unhide.
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3.1
MANIPULATING A WORKSHEET
Adjusting a column width
The default column width in Excel 2013 is 8.11 equal to 80 pixels. The maximum
column width is 255 characters (2302 pixels). To adjust the column width, follow
this steps (this exercise will adjust column D width)
1. Put the cursor on Column D. The cursor will change to down arrow key.
Click on Column D.
2. Then right click on the column, and click on Column Width (refer to
figure 3.1)
3.
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4. Column E : 20
Please try and select any column and put number higher than 255. See what
happens. Could you explain why?
Another step to adjust a column width is by double clicking on the border between
the column that you want to adjust and the next column. For example, if you want
to adjust column D, put the cursor between column D and E, and then double click
on that border. But this method need the column to be filled before you can adjust
it.
3.2
Maximum row height in Excel is 409 points. To adjust a row height, please follow
this steps (in this exercise we will use row 10.
1. Click on row 10. Then right click on it, and click Row Height (refer
figure 3.3)
2. A window will be displayed. Put the number as 20 (refer figure 3.4). Then
click OK.
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Add a column
Lets say we have a table as shown in figure 3.5 below. Save the file as
beginnerexample.xlsx
We want to add a new column between Bahasa Malaysia and Matematik column
(in this case its a new column between C and D). This are the ways to do it
Add a column The first way
1. Highlight the column D and right click. A menu as in figure 3.6 will be
displayed
2. Select Insert. A new column will be added on the right side of column
Matematik
Add a column The second way
1. Put your cursor on any cell in column Matematik. Then right click. A
menu as in Figure 3.7 will be displayed.
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3.4
Delete a column
There are also two ways to delete a column. Please follow the steps shown below.
We will use the same table as in figure 3.5. We will remove the column that we
add between Bahasa Malaysia and Matematik columns (that we added on
section Add a column)
Delete a column The first way
1. Highlight the column that we want to delete and right click on it. Please
refer figure 3.9
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3.5
Add a row
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2. A new row will be inserted above Faridah. Notice that the new row will
use row number 7 and Faridah will change to row number 8.
This is the other way to do it
1. Put the cursor on any cell in the row 7 where Faridah is located. Right
click on it, and choose Insert (refer figure 3.13)
3.6
Delete a row
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1. Highlight the row you want to delete. Right click on it and select Delete
(refer figure 3.15)
2. A window will be displayed (as in figure 3.17). Select Entire row and
click OK. The row will be deleted.
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3.7
Hide command is usually use to hide a column/row (or a number of columns and
rows) in the worksheet. We will use Sheet 2 in workbook
beginnerexamples.xslx. The worksheet look like in figure 3.18.
Consider we want to print the student grade only from the worksheet without the
marks. We can do one of this following
1. Delete the marks columns, or,
2. Hide the marks columns
To hide the column, do the following steps (we will hide Bahasa Malaysia
column in this example)
1. Highlight the column you want to hide (in this case column C) and right
click on it. The menu as in figure 3.19 will be shown. Select Hide.
2. If you see, when we hide the column, the next column label will not change
(unlike when we delete a column) as in figure 3.20.
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4.1
TEXT FORMATTING
Merge and center
Merge and center is to merge cell and center the text inside the cells. This is the
way to do it (we will use beginnerexample.xlsx)
1. Select B2 to F2 (refer figure 4.1)
3. The cells will be merged and the text will be centered (refer figure 4.3)
4.2
Text Formatting
Text bold
1. Select the B2 cell
2. Select the bold icon (refer figure 4.4)
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Text underline
1. Select the B2 cell
2. Select the underline icon (refer figure 4.5)
3. To select a color, click on a down arrow. It will show a color window (refer
figure 4.8)
4. Select a color that you like. You will see the change in font color
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3. Select the font that you want. For this example, select Arial Narrow.
4. Select the size that you want. Click on the font size icon (select figure 4.10)
5. Select size 12. You can see the font and size will be changed
Text alignment
Text alignment can be done by using the icon in the Home ribbon. Table 4.1 shown
the icon and its description.
Icon
Description
Top align Align text to the top
Middle align Align text so it is centered between the top
and bottom of the cell
Bottom align Align text to the bottom
Align left Align text to the left
Center Center the text
Align right Align text to the right
Table 4.1 : Text alignment
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4.3
Cell colouring
1. Select B2 cell
2. Select the Fill Color icon (refer figure 4.11)
3. If you click on drop arrow, you will get the same theme colour as in font
colour (refer figure 4.12)
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5.1
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To use the Zoom menu click on the magnification icon (the one with
Zoom written below it). A window will be shown (refer figure 5.5)
You can choose the predefined zoom or use the Custom. The maximum
percentage of zoom is 400% while the minimum percentage is 10%.
5.2
Page break preview can be accessed by using menu (in View ribbon refer figure
5.6) or the Page Break Preview (refer figure 5.7) icon in the right-down-side of
the Excel.
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