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03 INTRODUCTION TO
MS EXCEL 2010
Your Aim
to learn about:
Starting MS Excel 2010 Components of MS Excel 2010
Creating a New Workbook Entering Data in a Worksheet
Saving a Workbook Types of Data in MS Excel
MS Excel is an application software that help us to store and analyse data. It organises data in the
form of rows and columns. MS Excel is of great importance to those who maintain accounts for
sales, bills or do mathematical calculations as it is used to create electronic spreadsheets using
the data.
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The first electronic spreadsheet software was developed in 1978. It was called Visicalc.
STARTING MS EXCEL 2010
Steps to open MS Excel are:
Step 1 Click on the Start button.
Step 2 Click on All Programs.
Step 3 Click on Microsoft Office.
Step 4 Click on Microsoft Excel 2010.
An empty workbook titled Book1 is displayed.
Starting MS Excel 2010
COMPONENTS OF MS EXCEL 2010
Title Bar: It is located on the top of the window that shows the name of the current workbook.
File Tab: A green button located at the top left corner that contains the file menu commands
such as New, Open, Save, etc.
Quick Access Toolbar: It is present on the title bar. It displays quick access buttons of the
Save, Undo and Redo commands.
Ribbon: This bar has tabs with groups of related commands displayed on it.
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