They can also provide users with the ability to create custom formulas or ways of sorting specific worksheets of

data. Charts allow you to display much more than numbers alone. The current version is 2007 and soon to be
released, 2010.

Microsoft Excel now is one of the most widely accepted spreadsheet program anywhere in the world. The first
version was in 1985. The current version is 2007 and soon to be released, 2010.

If the XLSTART directory is on a network, you may not have permission to save files. Instead, you can create a
startup directory on your own system with any name you want and store the book.xltx file in this new alternate
startup directory. The directory name you choose doesn't matter, but you will need to tell Excel where it is.

There's a kind of Faustian pact we all have with passwords. Ideally, to be totally secure, each password should be
unique and should be changed on a regular basis. But we're human. Doing that is well near impossible and we'd
need a (password protected) file to store them all.

Well, first off we need to get into the Format Cells dialog box in Microsoft Excel as this is the dialog box that
allows you to create a custom format but before you do that make sure that you have selected the cell that you
want to apply the format to.

Excel takes this a step further by using pre-set calculations called functions built into the software. You may have
already used the SUM function by clicking on the AutoSum button or you may have typed =SUM(D4:D10) into a
cell below some numbers. Excel knows from the "=" that you are starting a calculation, and from "SUM" that you
want to use the inbuilt SUM function to add cells, and the brackets tells Excel which range of cells you want to add
- in this case, the values in cells D4 to D10 inclusive.

Make this more sophisticated with other statistics such as daily loss or Body Mass Index. Over a long time you can
spot seasonal trends, such as the dreaded Christmas bump. Techniques from advanced Microsoft Excel courses let
you add VBA scripts to make data entry easier.
Note: all numbers are shown to two decimal places, and if they didn't have any Excel adds zeros. This results in a
neat list with the numbers always showing the same number of digits after the decimal point.

If you are a fresh data entry worker, or have just stepped in the home based jobs, the first thing you will have to
do as a job is to type or sort some data. Depending on the client and the work nature, you excel recovered your
formulas and cell values but some data may have been lost may be asked to sort Excel spreadsheets, sort out
some specific type of data, like phone numbers, addresses or last names. Not only as an example, is Microsoft
Excel one of the most popularly used software programs used in data entry jobs. So, if you are an Excel expert, you
can doubtlessly earn greater than what a newbie or one without Excel experience can earn.

Using the Office suite, you can embed your spreadsheets into Word documents and Power point presentations.
You should now see the range of cells you selected, in the "Number 1" box. Who knows, it might even help you
get a promotion.