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A guide to

Rooban Subramaniam year 9 Bourne

A simple guide

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Contents

Renaming a sheet page 3

Inserting a sheet page 4

Moving a sheet page 4

How to shade a cell page 5

Putting borders on selected cells page 6

Autosum page 6 and 7

The average function page 7

Merging cells and why page 7

Printing sheets page 8

Printing parts of a sheet page 8 9

Changing cell format page 10

Copying formulas 11

How to use charts page 12

How to make charts page 12

List of charts page 12



Renaming sheets

To rename a sheet

is very simple

1. Right click

on the sheet

at the corner

you want to

rename2. Select

rename from

the list

3. The sheet name area should go blank and you can type in the name you

want

Or

Double click on the sheet name to change it



Inserting new sheets

1. Click on the button with the sheet

sign

Moving a sheet

Hold down the left click on the sheet you want to move and the drag it to

the gap you want to place it and then let go. While you are dragging it a

small page sign should come up.



Shading cells

1. Right click on the cell you want to shade and this is what it should look

like2. From the top bar select the fill paint icon and select a colour

Adding borders to selected cells

1. Select the cells you want and right



click

2. Out of the menu select format cells

Then click the border button and select a border and press ok at the bottom

Autosum

To add things use the autosum feature

first type in =sum(.



Then highlight the cells you want to

add and press enter for the total

The average function

The average function is similar to the autosum feature but instead you type in

=average( ,then you highlight the cells you want.

How to merge cells

First highlight the cells you want to merge

then click the top button as shown

Then select one of the options to merge the cells

Merging cells is useful because it creates an unbroken and merged cell in whice

you can add a lot more different things



To print sheets simply click the quick print button or go to the start menu and

press print

Telling excel what you want to print



1. Select an area you want to print

2. Then go to page layout and select print area

Select set print area now the only part of

the sheet thats printed is the part you want this is good because it saves ink and

paper and its very specific.



Formatting cells

Formatting cells is very simple

1.select the cells you would like to format and then right click on them



This menu should come up ,edit

and add what you want to the

cell and press ok

Copying formulas

in this the number 2797168 isthe sum of the top row of numbers



To copy the formula right click press

copy then go to the cell underneath and press paste

this is after paste is presses it has copied

the formula and worked out the total

How to use charts

To insert a new chart press insert then go to the charts section



On one of the pictures click so that a small menu comes up then go to all charts

A much larger selection of charts should then come up you pick the one you

want

After this you can edit data by right clicking on the chart and selections one of

the options from the menu

Column, line ,pie ,x and y, bar, area ,stock ,surface ,doughnut ,bubble radar