Microsoft Word

- Sometimes called WinWord, MS word, or Word.

- Is a word processor published by Microsoft.
- Developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard
Boodie in 1983.

Five feature of MS Excel

1. Pivot tables- summarize large amounts of excel

data
2. Conditional Formatting – changes the format of
a cell dependent on the content of the cell, or a
range of cells, or another cell or cells.
3. Sorting and Formatting – to make it easier to
File Types find wehat you need
4. Basic math – manipulate numbers in excel.
- .bmp – bitmap image
5. Mixed type Charts – combine two styles of
- .doc – Word Document
charts, such as excel’s column chart and line
- .wav – sound file
chart.
- .ppt – animated slides
- .txt – plain text Advantages of MS Excel
- .xls – spread sheet
- Data organization
- .dbf – database file
- Formula and calculation features
- .exe – application
- Third party support
Document formatting – the way the document is laid - Office integration
out on a page.
Disadvantage of MS Excel
Visual Appeal
- Learning curve
Font – graphical representation of text that may include - Calculate errors
different typeface, point size, weight, color, and design. - Time consuming
Orientation – the positioning or the overall layout of Benefgits of MS Excel
the paper.
1. Build great charts
Page Margins – space between the text and the edge of 2. Use conditional formatting
the document. 3. Help identify trends
4. Bring data together
Microsoft Excel
5. Online access
- Is a spreadsheet program included in microsoft
Relative cell
office.
- Released for Macintosh systems in 1985, - Changes when a formula is copied to another
followed by Windows version in 1987. cell
- Address without $ sign in the row and column
Dan Bricklin – inventor of MS Excel in 1978.
coordinates like A1.

Absolute cell reference

 - Is a spreadsheet that remains the same evem if - Easy to interpret compared to data cells
it’s copied or moved
Types of charts
- The formula contains 1 or more $ sign.
1. Pie chart – quantifying objects and showing
them as percentages
Formula – is an expression which calculates value of a 2. Column chart – show comparison of one or
cell. more data points
3. Combo chart – highlight different types of
Functions – are predefined formulas and are already
infromation
available in excel.
4. Scatter chart – demonstrate how one variable
Logical functions affects another
5. Area chart – illustrate the magnitude change
- IF – applies a logical test that results in true or between two or more data
false. 6. Stock chart – show fluctuations in stock prices,
- Nested IF – creates hierarchy of tests. daily rainfall and annual temperature
- AND 7. Surface chart – show a three dimensional
Text Functions surface that connects a set of data points
8. Radar chart – visualize multivariate data
- CLEAN
- CONCATENATE Graphs – varieties of estimations of iunformsation
- EXACT focuses over a given term of time.
- LEFT Types of graphs
- UPPER
1. Line graph – 2 and 3 dimensional line graphs
Date and time that show trends.
- TODAY 2. Column graphs – show single parameter of data
- NOW() that changes over time
- WEEKDAY 3. Bar graph – parameter that assigned to the y
- DAYS axiz and plotted against X Axis

Lookup and reference functions Alternative applications:

- VLOOKUP - Google suites

- HLOOKUP - Apple office suite/work
- ROWS - Apache open office
- Wps office
Math and trig functions - Dropbox paper
- SUMIF - FreeOffice
- COUNTIF - LibreOffice
- PRODUCT - Office 365 Online
- ROUND

Filtering data – finding specific information and

identifying any insignificant infromation to remove.

Sorting Data – quickly reorganize a worksheet.

Importance of Charts

- Allows you to visualize data graphically

- Easier to analyze trends and patterns in the
charts