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Guide to Excel

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If you’re thinking of taking a night course, it is fairly likely you will find a use for Excel during the course of your studies. Many courses, IT and business subjects in particular, make extensive use of Excel. The guide provided here will allow you to practice freely on a computer in your own time.

Even if you’re chosen course does not directly involve the use of Excel, a good understanding of its basics will benefit your personal life (family budgets, etc) and provide an excellent educational tool.
Every kind of information can be organised and stored in your easy to use Excel sheets.

Please Note this guide was created for Excel 2000. Slight differences may exist with other editions of Microsoft Excel

Guide created by California State University, Northridge
www.csun.edu

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Guide to Excel

1 Getting Started

2 Entering Data & Using Formulas

3 Editing Cell Contents

4 Saving & Printing a Worksheet

5 Excel Help Options

6 Closing a Worksheet & Exiting Excel

Appendix: Excel Menus

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