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11 January 2011

What is Excel?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which allows one to enter numerical values or data into the rows or columns of a spreadsheet, and to use these numerical entries for such things as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis.
The basic understanding being that excel is a spreadsheet.
What most of us- as casual users of Excel- don't know is that Excel is a Very Powerful tool for not only producing Graphs but also for in depth Analysis of data.

Heres what the Basic Excel Window looks like

A couple of Graphing examples:
Bar Graph/Chart
Pie Chart   





Creating Applications


More complicated 3D Graph



Hope this Helps.

5 comments:

  1. Cool, i actually need to know brush up on some of the basics. Not looked at it since high school and supposed to be helping someone with something from their work. Thanks!

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  2. good tips, i too need to get up to speed. its been many years

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  3. nice tutorial ;> waiting for more :)

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