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Excel Beginner Guide

The Microsoft Excel Beginner Guide covers essential concepts such as workbooks, worksheets, and cells, along with basic data entry and formatting techniques. It introduces fundamental formulas and functions, chart creation, and saving and printing documents. Additionally, it highlights useful keyboard shortcuts to enhance productivity in Excel.

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Excel Beginner Guide

The Microsoft Excel Beginner Guide covers essential concepts such as workbooks, worksheets, and cells, along with basic data entry and formatting techniques. It introduces fundamental formulas and functions, chart creation, and saving and printing documents. Additionally, it highlights useful keyboard shortcuts to enhance productivity in Excel.

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Microsoft Excel Beginner Guide

1. Getting Started
- Workbook: Your Excel file

- Worksheet: Each tab in Excel

- Cell: A single box (e.g., A1)

- Ribbon: Toolbar at the top

2. Basic Data Entry


- Click on a cell and type

- Press Enter to go down

- Use Tab to move right

3. Formatting Data
- Change font, size, color using the Home tab

- Use Bold (Ctrl+B), Italic (Ctrl+I)

- Format numbers: %, Currency, Date

4. Basic Formulas
- Start with '=' to write a formula

- Example: =A1+B1 (adds two cells)

- Common functions:

=SUM(A1:A5)

=AVERAGE(A1:A5)

5. Charts
- Select data, then go to Insert tab and choose chart (Bar, Pie, Line)

6. Saving & Printing


- File > Save As to save your work

- File > Print to print

- Use Print Preview to check layout


7. Keyboard Shortcuts
- Ctrl + C: Copy

- Ctrl + V: Paste

- Ctrl + Z: Undo

- Ctrl + S: Save

Tip: Practice makes perfect! Start using Excel for small tasks like budgets, to-do lists, or simple data

tables.

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