Microsoft excel Grade 6

Microsoft excel

By Antoinne Conliffe

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet software that is used to organize, calculate, and display information from Numbers. Anyone can use Microsoft Excel, however accountants are known to use this application often. The Microsoft Excel Icon is an X on a green page.

Microsoft Excel​

​Microsoft Excel

Multiple Choice

Microsoft Excel is a powerful

• Word Processor

• Spreadsheet program

• Presentation Software

• Book

Multiple Choice

Which sign is the icon for Microsoft Excel?

Multiple Choice

Who can use Microsoft Excel?

• Teachers

• Students

• Parents

• Anyone

• None of the above

Just like Microsoft Word Microsoft excel has a ribbon and tabs. One of the core tabs any one works with is the file tab. In the file tab you will find the option to Save, Save as, open, and close.

Microsoft Excel​

Tabs

Multiple Choice

in which tab you could see save, save as, print, etc.

• File

• home

• Design

• Insert

Multiple Choice

True or False:

You can use Microsoft Excel to listen to Music.

• True

• False

Every worksheet is made up of thousands of rectangles, which are called cells. A cell is the intersection of a row and a column. In other words, it's where a row and column meet.

Columns are identified by letters (A, B, C), while rows are identified by numbers (1, 2, 3). Each cell has its own name—or cell address—based on its column and row.

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Cells, Rows, and Columns

​What is a Cell?

Multiple Choice

What is the name given to the intersection of a row and a column in a spreadsheet? 

• cell
• block
• cube
• square

Multiple Choice

What is a Cell?

• Where a column and row intersect or meet

• A block

• The column

• Plant Cell

A cell Reference is the address of the active cell. In the Image the Column letter of the cell is C and the row number is 8. Therefore the cell reference is C8.

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Cells, Rows, and Columns

​Cell Reference

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Multiple Choice

What is the cell reference for the active cell?

• C5

• B7

• E10

• D4

Multiple Choice

What is the cell reference for the active cell?

• A2

• E2

• B9

• D5

Multiple Choice

What is the cell reference for the active cell?

• A1

• B8

• C8

• B10

Multiple Choice

What is the cell reference for the active cell?

• E9

• C8

• A7

• B13

Multiple Choice

What is the cell reference for the active cell?

• D7

• C3

• A9

• B3

A formula is an equation that makes calculations based on the data in your spreadsheet. When writing a formula or using a function it always starts with an = sign. The signs for addition and subtraction are the same. However, the sign for multiplication is an asterisk (*) and the sign for division is a forward slash (/).

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Cells, Rows, and Columns

Formula​

Multiple Select

Division symbol in spreadsheet.

• /

• +

• =

Multiple Select

Multiplication symbol in Microsoft Excel

• &

• *

• ^

Multiple Choice

Which formula is written correctly?

• A5+C5

• =A5+C5

• A5+C5

• =+A5C5

Multiple Choice

How would you write the formula for D4 divided by E4?

• =D4-E4

• =D4+E4

• =D4/E4

• D4/E4