Microsoft Excel

Prepared by P5 Foreign Teachers

INTRODUCTION
OF MICROSOFT
EXCEL

Are you
ready?

Excel is a spreadsheet program from Microsoft

and a component of its Office product group for

business applications. Microsoft Excel enables

users to format, organize and calculate data in a

spreadsheet.

What is Microsoft Office?

Microsoft Excel

File Tab

Insert Tab

Cell

01

Home Tab

02

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Parts of
Microsoft

Office

Ribbon

It is the display you see at the top of the Microsofft Excel window. It

allows you to accesss most of the commands available to you in

Excel. It is composed of three parts: Tabs, Groups and

Commands.

01

EXCEL RIBBON

TAB

Group

Command

TAB

“CTRL”

TAB

File Tab contains the basic required options such as New, Open, Save,

Save as, Print, Export and Close options.

File Tab

“CTRL”

File Tab

Info – with this option, we can get the information about the particular

excel file. Created date, last modified date, author name and etc.

File Tab

“CTRL”

File Tab
( INFO )

Home Tab

The most used tab; it incorporates all the text and cell formatting
features such as font and paragraph changes. The Home Tab also

includes basic spreadsheet formatting elements such as wrap,

merging cells and cell style.

02

HOME TAB

Mercury

Insert Tab

This tab allows you to insert a variety of items into a

document from pictures, clip art, and headers and footers.

03

INSERT TAB

Page Layout

Tab

This tab has commands to adjust pagge such as

margins, orientation and themes.

04

PAGE LAYOUT TAB

FORMULAS

TAB

This tab has commands to use when creating

formulas. This tab holds an immense function library

which can assisst when creating any formula or

function in your spreadsheet.

05

FORMULA TAB

DATA TAB

This allows you to modify worksheets with large

amounts of data by sorting and filtering. As well as

analyzing and grouping data.

05

DATA TAB

Review Tab

This allows you to correct spelling and grammar

issues, as well as set up security protections. It also

provided the track changes and notes feature
providing the ability to make notes and changes

user’s document.

05

REVIEW TAB

View Tab

This tab allows you to change the view of your
document including freezing or splittiing paness,

viewing gridlines and hide cells.

06

VIEW TAB

Mini technology:

Follow the link in the

graph to modify its data
and then paste the new

one here. For more

info, click here

Neptune

It’s the farthest

planet from the Sun

Mars

Mars is a cold and

red place

Venus

Venus is the second
planet from the Sun

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6%

25%

MINI TOOLBAR

It is a floating toolbar that appears

above the shortcut menu

when you right click a cell. It

displays commonly used
formatting like bold, italics,

front size and color.

Worksheet, Rows, Columns and Cells

CELL

Cells are small boxes in the worksheet

where we enter data. It is the
intersection od a row and column.

Microsoft Excel