ACC 117: Statistical Analysis with Software Application

Students Activity Sheet #21

Name: ____________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule:______________________________________ Date: ______________

Lesson Title: Introduction to Microsoft Excel Materials:

Lesson Objectives: FLM Student Activity Sheets
1. 1. Define Microsoft Excel
2. 2. Identify the use and importance of MS Excel References:
3. 3. Identify the functions, menus and commands of MS Excel https://www.addintools.com/docum
ents/excel/features-commands-
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A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
INTRODUCTION (2 minutes)
Hey BSA Students! You’re in Day 21 of ACC 117. Can you imagine that? You’re almost to finish
the subject and yet you are still driven to learn more of it, are you happy with that? Nice! This
topic is about Microsoft Excel, you will learn about the use and importance of it and its functions
and menus. Let start!

Activity 1: What I Know Chart Part 1 (3 minutes)

What do you know about the Introduction to Microsoft Excel? Try answering the questions
below by writing your ideas under the What I Know column. You may use key words or phrases
that you think are related to the questions.

What I Know Questions: What I Learned (Activity 4)

What is MS Excel

Give one use and importance of

MS Excel

Give one menus and commands

with function in MS Excel

B. MAIN LESSON

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Activity 2: Content Notes (13 minutes)

Below are the notes about Introduction to Microsoft Excel You may underline or highlight words
or phrases that you think is the main focus of the lesson.

INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT EXCEL

WHAT IS MS EXCEL?
MS Excel is a spreadsheet programme developed by
Microsoft in 1985, with the sole purpose of helping
businesses compile all their financial data, yearly credit,
and yearly debit sheets. Fast forward to the future after
31 years, it is now the most commonly used program for
creating graphs and pivot tables. However, many still
believe it is just a mere tool for small business purposes.
That’s WRONG! Today, we are going to look at some of
the major important purposes MS Excel is most used for.
So, let’s start!

IMPORTANCE OF MS EXCEL IN OUR DAILY AND BUSINESS LIVES:

1. Easy Arithmetic Solutions
Perhaps the most important use of MS Excel is using its ability of mass arithmetic calculations.
With a vast program full of formulae, it can add, subtract, multiply and divide hundreds of
numbers altogether, and can easily re-do it if a value is changed or added. This feature can be
used to easily make a company’s yearly sales and other spreadsheets.
2. Formatting Options
The various formatting options, including italics, highlighting, and colors, allow businesses to
bring the most important data to be different from the rest. A number of tasks achieved through
this tool are beyond impressive, with entire row highlighting and comparing lists and values to
name a few. You can use them to highlight specific entries in Accounting.
3. Availability of Online Access
Excel is part of the Office 365 Productivity Suite, Which means that business employers and
their employees can easily access their files over the cloud network, free from the bondages of
file transfer. Using a web-enabled PC, mobile or tablet, you can use the same programme and
access the same file remotely, making it easy to do changes if you can’t access your PC and
need to send the spreadsheet immediately!
4. Charts for Analysis
If you are working in a large association where the boss wants the detailed visual representation
of the various sectors of the business, you’ll need to draw charts. MS Excel makes it easy to do
so! After filtering and correctly inputting data, you can turn it into a Pie Chart or Clustered
Columns with a single click. Even better, it allows you to customize the colors and boundaries of
the charts and pie diagrams!

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5. Bring all the data in one place

Containing over 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns each in the spreadsheet, with hundreds of
them, or even more if your PC is capable, in a single file, Excel allows you to create
spreadsheets bigger than 20 A1 papers! You can import data from other spreadsheets and add
pictures and other objects through the insert tab, making it easy to put all the data you collected
in various files in one place.
6. Human Resource Planning
Although there are other systems such as Oracle, or QuickBooks for planning this, Excel allows
you to manage it all in one file! You can summarise an employee’s expenses, their pay per hour,
and easily discover wrong entries. Human Resource Professionals use this to take the whole
employee journal in bulk and use it to plan future credit and decide whether to invest more or
not, making it important for the control of the future.

FUNCTIONS, MENUS AND COMMAND IN MS EXCEL

Note to the teacher: You may provide the list of menus, commands and its function by sending
it to your students through a soft copy (Email, Gmail, and Messenger) or they may download it
through this website https://www.addintools.com/documents/excel/features-commands-excel-
2010.html

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Activity 3: Skill Building Activities (20 minutes)

Directions: Have you study the content notes? That’s great! Now, do some activity by giving 10
menus or commands with function in MS Excel.

MENU FUNCTION
Example: 1.Save Workspace Save the current layout of all windows as a
workspace so that it can be restored later.
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Activity 4: What I Know Chart Part 2 (2 minutes)

Now let’s check your understanding about the lesson for today. I hope that everything about the
topic is clear to you. This time you have to fill out the What I Learned column in Activity 1 Part 1.

Activity 5: Check for Understanding (5 minutes)

Directions: You already know the lesson for today’s session. This time, let us check your
understanding by explaining the use and importance of MS Excel in everyday living, maximum
of five sentences.

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C. LESSON WRAP-UP
Activity 6: Thinking about Learning (5 minutes)
A. Work Tracker
You are done with this session! Let’s track your progress. Shade the session number you just
completed.

B. Think About Learning

1. Please read again the learning targets for the day. Were you able to achieve those learning
targets? If yes, what helped you achieve them? If no, what is the reason for not achieving
them?
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2. What question(s) do you have as we end this lesson?

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FAQs
1. Where do I download or copy the menus or commands with function in MS Excel?
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2. Is there any other version of MS Excel?

Answer: Yes, they are the following:

 Excel 2.0 (1987)

 Excel 3.0 (1990)
 Excel 4.0 (1992) - Included in Microsoft Office 3.0
 Excel 5.0 (1993) - Included in Microsoft Office 4.0
 Excel 95 (1995) - Included in Microsoft Office 95
 Excel 97 (1997) - Included in Microsoft Office 97
 Excel 2000 (2000) - Included in Microsoft Office 2000
 Excel 2002 (2002) - Included in Microsoft Office XP
 Excel 2003 (2003) - Included in Microsoft Office 2003
 Excel 2007 (2007) - Included in Microsoft Office 2007
 Excel 2010 (2010) - Included in Microsoft Office 2010
 Excel 2013 (2013) - Included in Microsoft Office 2013

Job well done! You’ve finished today’s activity.

KEY TO CORRECTIONS:

A. Activity 3
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B. Activity 5: Answer should be based in the content notes.

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