Jan's Working with Numbers

    Intro: Common Tasks

Now that you can get around in an existing spreadsheet, you can look at how to do some common tasks. You will continue working with the budget-2010-Lastname-Firstname.xlsx spreadsheet while you learn how some of Excel's basic features work. 

• AutoSum -A quick way to add up a column or row. Excel will make a guess as to what cells you want to add. It is easy to change the cell references.

• Sort - Rearranges the selected cells in alphabetical and numerical order, or in reverse order.
  
  

• Charts - Turns your numbers into bars, pie slices, lines, or dots so you can see quickly how they relate to each other.

• Format Numbers - Assigns standard number styles to your data: Currency, Percentage and Comma. Other styles are available from a dialog.