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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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