Chapter 4: Setting Up Excel Worksheets

Overview

Microsoft Excel 2002, the Office spreadsheet component, is tailormade for performing calculations on your data. If you want to maintain lists of information that you can summarize in reports , you should use Microsoft Access rather than Excel. But if you need to analyze sales, calculate budgets , figure out loan or stock information, or compare two financial situations, Excel is the program to turn to.

When you have finished this chapter, you will know how to:

• Get started

• Enter data

• Edit worksheets

• Apply basic formatting

• Construct simple formulas

• Name cells and ranges

• Organize worksheets for easy reading

• Perform more advanced calculations

• Print worksheets