Spreadsheet/Excel
A worksheet, also called a spreadsheet, is an electronic sheet made up of rows and columns. It is used for planning a project or checking financial position of an organization. The term spreadsheet and worksheet are often used interchangeably. Spreadsheet usually refers to a computer program, where as worksheet refers to the actual document you create by using the spreadsheet program. Excel 2007 is a popular spreadsheet program, where you design worksheets using this software package. Excel 2007 uses a workbook style presentation which is made up of several worksheets, like pages in a notebook.
Excel 2007 provided the following features :
- It has a grid of columns and rows into which you can enter numeral, text, etc. Each box in the grid ( the intersection of a row and a column) is called a cell . The cell is where you enter data.
- It can perform mathematical or logical calculation and show the results . Any cell can contain the results of a calculation performed on any other cells in a spreadsheet.
- You can easily change the contents of a cell. Moreover, if you change a number that is used in a calculation elsewhere in the spreadsheet, the calculation is done automatically.
- You may customize the appearance of the sheet very similar to the flexibility of a word processor which makes your data easy to read.
- You can plot a wide variety of graph, displaying data in an easy-ti-grasp pictorial forms.
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