COMPUTER SCIENCE
MS EXCEL SCREEN ELEMENTS
Quick Access Toolbar- provides access to the most common excel commands
including save, undo, repeat, and copy. You can customize, add, or delete buttons
on this toolbar.
Title bar- shows the open program and the name of the open file.
Window control buttons- minimizes, maximizes, restores, and closes the window.
File tab- provides access to the menu in office 2010. When you click this button it
shows the following menus: save, save as, op en, close, info, recent, new, print,
save and send, help, add-ins, options, and exit.
Ribbon- it contains the commands organized in three components:
Tabs- provide access to many tools and contain related groups.
Groups- organize related commands. Group name appears below the group
Ribbon.
Commands- appear within each group.
Name box- shows the cell reference of the active cell. This can also be used to
locate a cell.
Formula bar- the area where you can enter or edit text or formulas.
Active cell- a cell that is selected. The active cell is indicated in the name box at
the formula bar.
Cell- a cell is the rectangular area where a column and a row intersect. Each cells is
identified by a cell reference which is its column and row location.
Worksheet- each workbook contains worksheets with sheet tabs located at the
bottom worksheet. The sheet tab identifies the the name of the worksheet (sheet 1,
sheet 2, sheet 3).
Workbook- a file that contains one or more worksheets, which you can use to
organize various kinds of related information.
Scroll bar- allows you to easily go to the top or bottom, left or right of the
worksheet.
View buttons- displays different views of the worksheet such as normal, page
layout, page break.
Zoom level and zoom slider- opens the zoom dialog box and
maximizes/minimizes the views by sliding the zoom slider.
Formatting- is the process of changing the appearance of data in worksheet cells.
Styles- allows to easily format with colors.
Style format- a range of cells and converts it into a table.
Wrapping text- allows Excel to automatical extend the size of cell
-allows to fit the text to the active cell.
Freeze pane- allows to freeze a certain portion of the worksheet while you can
scroll to other parts of worksheet.
a. Freeze panes- keeps row and column visible with the rest of worksheet
scrolls.
b. Freeze top rows- keeps the top row visible while scrolling through the rest
of worksheet.
c. Freeze first column- keeps the first column visible while scrolling through
the rest of worksheet.
Column- is the vertical space that goes down the window. Excel has 256 columns.
Each column has a column heading. A, B, C and so on. The last column heading is
IZ.
Row- is a horizontal space that goes across the window. Excel has 16,384 rows.
Each row has a row heading 1,2,3 and so on.
ICON NAME FUNCTION
General Number format Shows a list of format
options
$ Accounting number Places currency and other
format number formats.
% Percent style Changes the number to
percentage
, Comma style Adds commas separator
to numbers
<. Increase decimal Increases the decimal
numbers
>. Decrease decimal Decreases the decimal
numbers
FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS
Formula- used to calculate values. You may use an equal sign or the AutoSum
function to build a formula.
Texts- letters, symbols, numbers and spaces or any combination that you enter into
a cell.
Value- number that you enter into a cell that you may use in a formula later. You
may include in the value the numeric symbols such as decimal point, comma, or
currency.
ARITHMETIC OPERATION AND CORRESPONDING KEYBOARD SIGN
SIGN OPERATION EXAMPLE
+ ADDITION =B5+C5
- SUBTRACTON =B5-C5
* MULTIPLICATION =B5*C5
/ DIVISION =B5/C5
^ EXPONENTATION =B5^3
