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Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet application software developed by Microsoft Corporation of USA It is a part of Microsoft Office It is used to manipulate numerical data in rows and columns. The columns are labeled with letters A, B, C, and so on. Similarly rows are labeled with numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on. Each document or file of Excel contains several spreadsheets. The spreadsheet of Excel is known as worksheet where data is arranged in tabular form (into rows & columns). A single worksheet in Excel has maximum 65536 rows and 256 columns Microsoft Excel 2000.
In Microsoft Excel, the document or file in which information is permanently stored is called Workbook. A workbook may contain several worksheets. When a new workbook is opened, it contains three worksheets named as sheet1, sheet2 and sheets. The names of these sheets can be changed. The new sheets can also be added to the workbook. Each worksheet has a tab labeled with a name (i.e. sheet1, sheet2, etc.) at the bottom of the Microsoft Excel window. You can easily switch between the worksheets by clicking the tabs of the sheets similarly; the information can easily be shared between the worksheets.
You can also make calculations on the numerical data stored into the worksheet as well as different types of charts or graphs can be made for the numerical data. The data can also be formatted by applying fonts, font sizes, underline, bold etc.
Starting Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel program must be installed in your computer before to start or load this program.
To start the Microsoft Excel, follow these steps.
- Click the “Start” button, Start menu appears.
- Choose the “Programs” from Start menu, a submenu of “Programs” appears.
- Select “Microsoft Excel” from submenu to start it.
Note: You can also create the shortcut of the Microsoft Excel on the desktop. By double clicking the shortcut, Microsoft Excel is started.