What is Excel? The importance of Excel in work and study

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What is Excel?

Excel is a spreadsheet software included in the Microsoft Office suite. This software helps users to record data, present information in tabular form, calculate and process information quickly and accurately with a large amount of data.

Excel worksheets are made up of rows and columns. The point of intersection between these two components will be called a cell.

Versions of Excel

Excel was born a long time ago and has released many different versions with new features to meet the needs of users. Below are the versions of excel that have been updated from time to time, please refer to:

STT	Version name	Meeting day
first	Excel 2003 version	August 19, 2003
2	Excel 2007 version	30/01/2007
3	Excel 2010 version	June 15, 2010
4	Excel 2013 version	January 29, 2013
5	Excel 2016 version	September 22, 2015
6	Excel version 2019	September 24, 2018

What are the uses of Excel?

Excel has many different uses and some outstanding uses such as: Save data, participate in calculations, manage data, join and support analysis tools, search, …

Basic Excel Features

Features you need to know

Some basic Excel features such as:

• Import and save data: You can enter data into sheets, then save and when used can open.
• Support formulas to participate in calculations: There are many formulas to calculate such as: SUM, TODAY, IF,…
• Draw a chart: Based on the given data, you can draw a graph to make it easier to evaluate.
• Create and link multiple spreadsheets: Make data more closely linked.
• Support safe security: Support users to set a password when opening the file.

See also : Commonly used basic Excel functions

Structure of a worksheet in Excel

A spreadsheet will include many components that make up:

• Spreadsheet – Sheet: Each table will have more than 4 million cells, so users can freely enter data here.
• Notebook – Workbook: Usually there will be 1 – 255 Sheets. Workbook is used to collect spreadsheets, graphs, … that have a connection with each other.
• Column – Column: Is a collection of cells calculated vertically and has a default width of 9 characters. A spreadsheet will have 256 columns and are typed with the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G,…
• Rows – Rows: Is a set of cells that are calculated horizontally and have a default height of 12.75 points. A spreadsheet will have at least 16384 lines and are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…
• Cell – Cell: Is the intersection point between rows and columns. Each cell will be identified with the column letter and row number. For example, A3, D7, E1,…
• Range – Range: This is a collection of multiple cells and is defined by the first cell coordinates and the last cell coordinates. For example: C3:C5, D2: E6,…

See also: How to fix columns and rows in Excel

Excel data types

In Excel will include the following data types:

• String data type: Includes letters from A – Z, special characters or a sequence of numbers that only need to contain one character.
• Numeric data type: Includes numeric data from 0 to 9, both negative and positive numbers.
• Time data type: You can enter as date month year or hour minute second.
• Boolean data type: This type will return True/False.
• Formula data type: You use operator formulas or comparison signs.

What industries does Excel apply to today?

Excel was born for practical application in many different industries such as:

• Accounting: This is an industry that uses Excel quite often to calculate, make daily reports, financial statements, …
• Banking: Manage personnel, assets and lists.
• Engineer: Calculating data to participate in construction works, projects,…
• Teacher: Manage information and calculate grades for students.

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