MICROSOFT EXCEL
FUNDAMENTALS
BY OMOSOWOENI IFEOLUWA
WELCOME TO THE
WORLD OF EXCEL
WELCOME MESSAGE
Microsoft Excel is a lovely skill to have. It is
something that is quite easy to learn. Today
we are going to learn, relearn and probably
unlearn a few things😁.
LETS GET STARTED
01
WELCOME MESSAGE
Once again, welcome to Excel ! LIST OF CONTENT
PRESENTATION
02
HMM...EXCEL?
Get informed on what this tool is all
about!
03 WHY EXCEL ?
Understand why excel is used in our
everyday life.
MINI PROJECT😁
04
FUNCTIONS Working through a data analysis project
Looking through some functions used in together!!
Microsoft Excel
HMM..EXCEL ?
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet
package used for data entry,
organization and sorting of data as
well as visualizations to describe
trends.
It is also used for basic to complex
mathematical calculations.
WHY EXCEL ?
Excel is very important as it plays a major role in every sector of the world.
Businesses use it to analyse sales and calculate their revenue monthly, quarterly or annualy, for tracking
expenses and storing necessary market data.
Schools make use of excel to calculate and store students results, track fees payment, registration of students
and documenting procedures.
In the oil and gas excel plays a major role in streamlining reports, analyse past and present oil prices and
make forecast to enhance profitability. Excel is vast and will ever remain important in our world.
OVERVIEW OF MICROSOFT EXCEL INTERFACE
DATA TYPES IN EXCEL
THERE ARE 4 DATA TYPES PRESENT IN
MICROSOFT EXCEL, NAMELY:
TEXT
LOGICALS
NUMBER
ERROR
When creating formulas in
excel always begin with an
equal to sign "="
RELATIVE REFERENCING
Relative referencing does not contain a
dollor sign e.g A4.
CELL REFERENCING In excel, cells are relative by default
ABSOLUTE REFERENCING
Absolute referencing make use of adollar sign
There are basically 2 ways of referencing a cell
Relative referencing
Absolute Referencing
SORTING AND FILTERING
WHEN WORKING WITH DATA , YOUR
DATA NEEDS TO BE STRUCTURED. THAT
IS WHERE SORTING AND FILTERING
COMES IN.
CONDITIONAL FORMATTING
Conditional formatting helps to make
trends and patterns in your more
obvious.
Based on certain conditions inputted by
the user, the conditional formatting
automatically functions to meet that
specific condition.
PIVOT TABLE
You may compare, summarize, and
analyze data with the help of a pivot
table, which is an effective tool for doing
so.
They help streamline and
communicate our findings better
BASIC EXCEL
FUNCTIONS
Basic Excel Functions
NOTE: • =SUM(number1, [number2],…)
Square brackets [], represents
optional arguments. • =AVERAGE(number1, [number2],…)
• =COUNT(value1, [value2],…)
• =COUNTA(value1, [value2],…)
• =IF(logical_test,[value_if_true],[value_if_false])
• =MAX (number1, [number2],…)
• =MIN (number1, [number2],…)
DATA USERS ONE : 230M USERE TWO : 310M
VISUALISATION
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Visualizing your data is an essential aspect when communicating your findings about 20
some data
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It gives a clear picture of what your data is all about.
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This can made with the use of bar charts, histograms, heatmaps and many others 5
provided by the Microsoft Excel software
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Visuals make it easier to draw
conclusions.
DATA CLEANING
We will do a bit of sorting and filtering
DATA ANALYSIS
along side some other data cleaning
technique
PROJECT
SUMMARY
Here the data will be summarised with
the use of a pivot table
DATA VISUALISATION
To display our
findings/outcomes, we will
create a dashboard.
A PREVIEW OF THE FINAL
PRESENTATION
Move between worksheets in a
F2 Enter new cell CTRL + pg up/pg dn
workbook
Repeat the last command or ALT + Down Opens a dropdown list
f4
anchor if within a cell
Flips between open files of the
CTRL + TAB
Exist a cell with making any same program
ESC
changes
EXCEL SHORTCUTS
CTRL + Home Moves cell to A1
ENTER Moves down a cell
TAB Moves right a cell CTRL + C Copy
Moves to the First/Lasr non-
CTRL + (UP,Down, Left, Right) CTRL + X Cut
empty cell in range
Highlights up until last non-
SHIFT + (UP,Down, Left, Right) CTRL + V Paste
empty cell in range.
CTRL + Z UNDO
CTRL + D Fill Down
CTRL + R Fill Right
SUMMARY OF OUR
LEARNINGS
We discussed the different data types present in Microsoft excel
We learnt how to clean data, through sorting and filtering,
We also learnt how to create pivot tables for summary.
Lastly, we created a dashboard to display our findings.
FIND & CONTACT
[email protected]
+234 91 6682 1460
HTTPS://WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/IFEOLUWA-OMOSOWOENI/
THANK YOU FOR
YOUR TIME!
Big ups to SPE LAGOS ❤
