What is Microsoft Excel (xls)?

Answer 1

Excel is the spreadsheet that comes with Microsoft Office.

A spreadsheet is, at its most basic, a grid of boxes where you can enter numbers and equations. Each box (called a cell) has a specific address, based on the row number and the column. The first cell is A1, the one below it is A2, and the one to the right of it is B1. Pretty simple so far, right?

Knowing no more than this, you can use Excel as nothing more than a convenient editor for tabular data. In fact, this is primarily what Excel is for... except instead of just putting in tabular data it can also calculate the data for you.

Here's an example: I had a garage sale recently and recorded each sale in the spreadsheet. It was pretty simple. (Actually, I'm lying to you. It was a complex spreadsheet that tracked a lot of different things like donor, category, and sales goals, but I'm simplifying it for this answer. It COULD have been a simple spreadsheet).

In the 'A' column I listed the item that was sold. In the B column I listed the price of the item. A ways down the B column--say row 100--I put an equation in by typing "=sum(B1:B99)" which meant to add up all the numbers in the cells from B1 to B99. Now I had a functional spreadsheet that automatically updated the total sold so far. Any time I typed in a new purchase, BAM! There was the new total. A lot easier than adding it up on paper, no?

This is basically what a spreadsheet is. It can format numbers as percentages, dollar amounts, etc. Basic math works like "=A5+B6" or "=C12+10" and so forth--each cell's address can be treated as a variable in the equation, and you can type in literal numbers as well.. The more common equations (average, total, etc) have buttons for them on the top. For the more advanced ones I usually recommend choosing "function" from the insert menu.

You'd be surprised what excel can do. It's pretty simple on the surface, but has tremendous power beneath.

I hope this answered your question. Good luck to you.

Answer 2

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers. It features an intuitive interface and capable calculation and graphing tools which, along with aggressive marketing, have made Excel one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. It is overwhelmingly the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms and has been so since version 5 in 1993 and its bundling as part of Microsoft Office.

Answer 3

It Is An Microsoft Office Document With .Xls Extention.

Answer 4

Microsoft Office Excel is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers.

Answer 5

Microsoft Excel is a computer application, commonly known as a spreadsheet that allows you to categorize and list large amounts of numerical data.

At a very basic level, you can use Excel to list numerical values. On the complex side, you can use it graph, compute formulas and advanced sorting.

Answer 6

Excel is a spreadsheet program that helps users when they are trying to create graphs, lists, or anything need to be in boxes or such. Excel also has capabilities to order lists, add numbers, and much much more. Excel is a very useful program that could influence everyone's life.

Answer 7

Excel is a computer programme that is very clever with numbers. It can help you with most number-based things, from very simple adding and subtracting all the way through to very complicated things like financial forecasting. If you want to use it you will probably need to get some help to get started because it is not as 'obvious' as a word processing programme (eg Word).

Answer 8

Its a spread sheet program within the Microsoft Office package that allows you to create tables, graphs and reports that involves numbers . It contains mathematical and accounting equations that can be used for home, business or educational purposes.

Answer 9

It's a program which allows you to put all kind of numbers and relate them with mathematical formulae. When you add or change a figure, the program changes the result, be it an addition, multiplication or any kind of math operation. Therefore it is extremely useful in all kind of applications where numbers are involved.

Answer 10

a popular computer program that allows you to create and edit spreadsheets, which are used to store information in columns and rows that can then be organized and/or processed. Spreadsheets are designed to work well with numbers but often include text.