What are spreadsheets in Excel? Can anyone give me examples please?

Question

Hey, I need to acquaint myself with Excel spreadsheets usage ASAP and was wonderin if Yahoo Answers cud b of any help . The clearer ur examples are the more likely i'll choose ur answer as Best.

Answer 1

A spreadsheet is the computer equivalent of a paper ledger sheet. It consists of a grid made from columns and rows. It is an environment that can make number manipulation easy and somewhat painless.

Spreadsheets are made up of

columns
rows
and their intersections are called cells
In each cell there may be the following types of data
text (labels)
number data (constants)
formulas (mathematical equations that do all the work)

Here are two example pictures:

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/gif/paperled.gif
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/gif/computerled.gif

Here is an actual sample of a spreadsheet - Note, you must have Excel installed on your computer in order to open and view this:

http://databases.about.com/library/samples/address.xls

And you can take a look at some Excel tutorials here:

http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edit202/tutorial/spreadsheet/spreadsheet.htm

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

The best way to give you a look at an Excel spreadsheet would be to go to the Microsoft website. If you are alos familiar with Lotus, Quattro Pro spreadsheets, they are in the same category. If you need more details, you can send me an e-mail of the specifics of what you need to do with the spreadsheet. There are basic entries into the spreadsheet, such as label and number formats and simple charts.

Answer 3

Excel is spreadsheet software, i.e. it is used to produce spreadsheets - which are essentially just tabulated sets of numerical data.
In other words, numbers in tables, used for calculations.
A spreadsheet has individual 'cells' or boxes in which separate numbers can be typed, or calculations performed.
So you might have cell A1 having the value 5, the cell below having the value 10, and the cell below that having a formula to add them together, giving 15.
An example might be a list of football game results, with cells calculating points scored so far. These could be made to auto-calculate each time a new result is entered.

Answer 4

You lost me at "positioned it on a fact". i'm not sure what a fact is. do you want the suggestions in Excel or another software? do you want it on a similar Sheet in Excel or diverse Sheet? Are you basically saying you prefer to take each and each customer and reproduction their records a hundred instances... each and each with the aid of itself sheet?

Answer 5

the spreadsheets are where you do your work. you can track spending and all sorts of fun stuff.

Answer 6

Visit microsoft office online - you will get as many examples and as much training as you can take
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/default.aspx