Microsoft Excel

Bar charts are normally laid out horizontally. You can have many variations of bar chart, such as clustered or stacked.

The simplest and best way is:

=A1+A2

You could also do it any of the following ways:

=SUM(A1:A2)

=SUM(A1,A2)

=SUM(A1+A2)

=SUBTOTAL(9,A1,A2)

There is no simple answer to that, as it depends on what exactly you are trying to do. Through using a spreadsheet and getting training and experience you would learn what facilities are available and how you can use them to do the things you need. Then when you come to create a spreadsheet you will know or can work out what formulas you need for the particular task you are trying to accomplish.

It can simply be called a cell reference. There are a number of ways of having a cell reference in a formula. See the related question below.

they are used in the celluler systom of cell

If you used the CONCATENATE function then there's a limit to the number of arguments which is Excel version dependent. Excel 2007 and newer versions allow 255 arguments, all older versions allow 30 arguments. You don't need to use the CONCATENATE function. You can use the & operator

to concatenate instead.

=A1&", "&B1&", "&C1

Using this method you're only limited by the allowable maximum length for a formula which, again, is version dependent. Excel 2007 and newer versions allow 8192 characters, all older versions allow 1024 characters. You could also concatenate the results of several concatenate formulas in a new formula.

Enter a value or calculation in a cell and press Enter to save the entry.

Then click on that cell and mouse-over it. You should see a small plus-sign at the bottom-right corner. Click on that plus-sign and drag your mouse down or to the right to copy the value or equation to the new cells you've dragged over. Release the mouse when you've selected the desired cells.

bullets

Yes they can be. There are text functions in Excel which can manipulate text, which is what labels are. Some of those functions can get numeric values, like the LEN function getting the length of a piece of text. That number could then be used in a calculation. So although it is not often done, there are times when labels can be used in calculations.

An Excel spreadsheet is called a workbook. Each individual page is called a worksheet.

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A Pareto chart includes both bars and a line graph. The bars represent individual values, and the line represents the cumulative running total. You would use a Pareto chart when you want to display that kind of graphical representation of your data.

You can have over 200 worksheets in a workbook. For Excel 2007 and higher, the actual number of sheets is limited only by the amount of memory available to Excel.

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It is a computer software program that allows you to do calculations, make charts and store information. It is much more powerful than a calculator. It is made up of a grid formed by columns and rows and making cells. Into these cells you can enter different things like text and dates, but mainly numbers. You can also put calculations into cells which use other numbers from other cells. A spreadsheet is huge, containing millions of cells and so letting you do lots of calculations. You can also do other things with it like drawing boxes and circles and other shapes and these can be coloured in. A spreadsheet is one of the most powerful and useful of all computer programs. It is particularly used by business people who do a lot of calculations. It is based on the old paper-based spreadsheets that accountants used a lot at one time. A spreadsheet is very simple to start using and once you get practice you can do lots more with it.

We can say lots of things about spreadsheet programs. The most important things to know are these:

Spreadsheets are bits of computer software that can be used

(A) Like a piece of grid paper

e.g. to display things, such as the setting out of a maths problem or to records things like a table of facts and figures

(B) Like a handheld calculator

e.g. to do mathematical calculations, particularly those with complicated formulae

(C) Like a simple programming language

e.g. To do the same complex calculation over and over again changing only the input numbers or to simulate what happens to the numbers involved in a real, changing situation.

Try this (instructions for Excel 2000)

From the file menu, select page set up

Click on sheet tab

Click the box next to gridlines

Click OK

Yes, because I must define which data to include on a basic level

A worksheet is an arrangement of rows and columns, making up cells into which various types of data and formulas can be entered. Each row is numbered. Each column is headed by a letter or combination of letters. A number of worksheets are contained in what is called a workbook.

Conditional formatting is performed in Excel by applying formatting rules to your data. For example, you can apply a two-color scale which automatically applies a different background color to your data; for example lower values with one color and higher values with a different color.

In Excel you can use the UPPER function. You can put a cell reference into it or even specific text.

=UPPER("change this")

This will result in CHANGE THIS.

=UPPER(A3)

This will display the content of cell A3 in uppercase in the cell that the formula has been typed into.

Multiplication, division, addition and subtraction are four operations that can be used. Their operators are * / + and - which all appear on your numeric keypad.

Functions that can be used include SUM, MIN, MAX and COUNT.

There is no simple way of turning numbers into their corresponding words or words into their corresponding numbers in Excel. It is possible to do it for a limited amount, but not for all numbers or all words, because there are so many. To do it for some limited values you could use one of the lookup functions. It is slightly easier to do numbers to words than doing words to numbers.