JOHN WAYNE LASQUITE, MARY JANE MACABUHAY

EXCEL FOR NURSES

The Excel spreadsheet app lets you create, view, edit, and share your files with others quickly and easily. Create spreadsheets, data analyses, charts, budgets and more while you view and edit workbooks attached to email messages.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Spreadsheets present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using both basic and complex arithmetic operations and functions.

PARTS AND FUNCTIONS

• Quick Access Toolbar – Collection of buttons that provide one click access to commonly used commands such as Save, Undo or Redo. You can also customize this according to your preference.

• Worksheet Window – A window that displays an Excel worksheet, basically this is where you work all the tasks.

• Row Headings – The number that appears on the left of the worksheet window to identify the different rows.

• Ribbon – The main set of commands and controls organized task in Tabs and groups, you can also customize the ribbon according to your preference.

• Column Headings – The letters that appear along the top of the worksheet to identify the different columns in the worksheet.

• Title Bar – A bar the display the name of active workbook

• Sheet Tabs – Tabs the display the name of the worksheet in the workbook, by default its      name sheet 1, sheet 2, etc. You can rename this to any name the best represent to your sheet.

• Formula Bar – A bar that displays the value or formula entered in the active cell

• Active Cell  – The cell selected in the active worksheet

• Select All Button – A button that selects all the cells in the active worksheet

• Name Box – A box that displays the cell reference of the active cell

• Button/File Tab – It provides access to workbook level features and program settings. You will notice that in Excel 2007 there is a circle Office button while on the Excel 2010 it replace with File Tab.