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Sheet Tab
It lies below the active sheet of the screen. The names of the sheets appear in the sheet tabs at the bottom
of the spreadsheet. Click on the specific sheet tab to open it.
Horizontal Scroll Bar
It lies below the sheet tabs. It helps to view the spreadsheet screen by moving the scroll button from left to
right and vice-versa.

Vertical Scroll Bar
It lies towards the right side of the spreadsheet. It helps to view the spreadsheet by moving the scroll button
from top to bottom and vice-versa.

Control Buttons
Control buttons are essential interface elements that allow users to execute commands, such as minimizing,
maximizing, or closing a window.

Performing Basic Operations in a Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet allows you to enter, edit and delete data and use data functions. Let us see the functions that
spreadsheet allows you to perform.

Entering Data in Sheet
To begin entering the data, click on the cell. While typing,
the data can also be seen in the Formula bar.

After typing the data, press the Enter key or move the
cursor to the other cell or click on the other cell using
mouse. Consider an example to work on a spreadsheet:
Open a new spreadsheet. Type the name of a school, say
‘ABC Public School’ in A1 cell and then press the down
arrow key to make the cell A2 as the active cell.
Now, in cell A2, type ‘Performance Report’. Move to row number 3. Type the headings of the data in separate
columns by pressing the right arrow key/mouse click: Enroll. No. in column A, Name in column B, Class in
column C, Section in column D and Father’s Name in column E.

Now, we can feed data under the given headings in separate cells starting from the 4th row viz., below the
separate column headings.
To enter the formula in the cell, you need to first select the cell and
then enter a formula. For example, to add the two values 5 and 3, you
need to type =5+ 3 in the cell.
Different Types of Data
To begin working with a Calc, the user has to feed data. Data can be classified into numeric, text, date/time
and formula.
Text Data (Label)
Text data are the data which are textual in nature. It refers to the data which is a combination of alphabets,
spaces, digits and/or other characters. If number are to be inserted as text, they are mentioned within double
quotes “ ”. By default, text data are aligned towards the left side of the cell and are generally not meant for
calculation.

Numeric Data (Values)
Numeric data consist of digits (0–9), Exponential (e), decimal (.) and numeric operators like +, -, /, *, %, $.
Numeric data or values are aligned towards the right side in a cell. Numeric data are the operands on which

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