Week 5- Muddy

Confused about Excel?

Technology is changing the world. And although technology is making tasks easier for us, getting to know how to use the technology is not always easy. Microsoft Excel is a program that more and more people are using in a variety of fields. Excel is a spreadsheet program that has become an essential part of the business environment. Because Excel can do so many complex things, I have found it confusing sometimes just to figure out how to get it started on the simple things I want it to do. Often times after multiple attempts of trying to apply formulas, I end up manually doing the calculations and then typing them in. After studying the Excel program some, I found these tasks to be much easier than before.



Once you learn what you are doing, Excel will make your business life so much easier. Formulas in Excel can be very helpful. To make a formula type an equals sign in your cell. Then simply tell the computer what formula you want to perform. For example, if you want the sum of cell A1 and cell B1, in another cell type =A1+B1. Excel will do the calculation for you. If you want to do this function for multiple cells, you can drag to copy the formula to other cells too. Excel follows the order of operations. The order in which it performs calculations is parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and then subtraction. Excel also has functions. Some of the more common Excel functions are AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, and SUM. In a cell click the equals sign, select one of these functions, and then select a range of data. Learning how to work in Excel can really be beneficial.