MS EXCCEL COURSE

Interview Questions

Q.1
What is cell address in MS excel?
Combination of row number and column letter, tells the place of a cell.

Q.2
What is relative referencing and absolute referencing in MS excel?
Relative referencing; formula changes when to copied other cells. Do not have dollar signs
before and after column letter.
Absolute Referencing; formula does not change when copied to other cells. Do have dollar signs
before and after column letter. E.g. $B$3
Use F4 key for Absolute Referencing.

Q.3
How to use freeze panes(lock rows and columns) in MS excel?
Used when first row or column acts as header.
Select ( Rows/Columns) >View Tab> freeze Panes.

Q.4
How can you restrict someone from copying a cell from your worksheet in MS excel?
Select the data you want protect
Press Ctrl +Shift +F ( shortcut for format cells tab) and go to protection tab
Go to review tab and select protect sheets

Q.5
What is the difference between formula and a function?

Formula is typed by the user to get a calculation (a1+a2-a3)

whereas function is a built-in calculation in excel. E,g sum (A1:A2).

Q.6
Mention the order of operations in excel while evaluating a formula?
PEDMAS> Parathensis>Exponents>Division>Multiplicatin>Addition
>Subtraction
Q.7
Write formula.
Multiply cell A1 by 10, add 5 to result, divide by 2.
=((A1*10)+5)/2

Q.8
What is the difference between count, counta, countblank?
Count; count the number of cell that contain numeric value.
Counta; count the number of cell that contain any form of content
Countblank; count the number of blank cells

Q.9
Short-cut key for adding filter to a table?
Ctrl + Shift + L
Q.10
Short-cut key for adding hyperlink.
Ctrl + k

Q.11
How to merge text strings in multiple cells into one cell.
Concatenate ( cell,cell,cell)

Q.12
Short-cut key for adding hyperlink.
Ctrl + k

Q.13
How to split one column data into separate columns ?

Select the cell> data tab> text to columns > choose delimited >space

Q.13
What is the use of vlookup and how do we use it ?

VLOOKUP function is use for looking up a piece of information in table and

extracting some relevant data or information.

Syntax
=VLOOKUP ( Value, table, col_index, [range_lookup])
=VLOOKUP(Q16,Q16:S21,2,0)
Column index> the column of table from which you want to exract data.

Q.14
How the IF() function works ?
IF (Cell Array <Condition, Cell Array < Condition),” Yes ”,”No”

Q.15
How the SUMIF() function works ?
The SUMIF() function adds the cell values specified by given condition or criteria.
=SUMIF(AB17:AB21,">30000")>>>>>>> It will sum only salaries > 30000

Q.16
You are given the COVID data, find the number of days in which cases are greater than 70 in
Pakistan.

CountIFS Function is used for this purpose.

=COUNTIFS(AH13:AH36,"Pakistan",AG13:AG36,">50")
AH13>> First select single cell than select entire column (AH13:AH36,
Q.17

What is a Pivot table? Video time 10;26

Q.18

How to use advance filters? Video time 10;28