Excel® 2013 On Demand

Introduction

Microsoft Excel 2013 is a spreadsheet program that you can use to track and analyze sales, create budgets, and organize finances—both business and personal. You can also use Excel to manage inventory, set up investment reports or create loan amortizations. Excel is a financial tool for performing calculations and other tasks automatically, which allows you to accomplish a variety of business or personal tasks in a fraction of the time it would take using pen and paper.

This chapter introduces you to the terminology and the basic Excel skills you can use in the program. In Excel, files are called workbooks. Each new workbook contains a default setting (which you can change) of three worksheets, which are similar to the pages in an ...