What is Excel?

Excel is a spreadsheet program from Microsoft and a component of its Office product group for business applications. Microsoft Excel enables users to format, organize and calculate data in a spreadsheet.

Use of Microsoft Excel in Education 

Excel is a great resource for teaching students many important skills, like data visualization, data organization and information restructuring, filtration, quick calculations, data interpretation, and tabulation,  

Features of MS Excel

• Home

  • Comprises options like font size, font styles, font colour, background colour, alignment, formatting options and styles, insertion and deletion of cells and editing options

• Insert

  • Comprises options like table format and style, inserting images and figures, adding graphs, charts and sparklines, header and footer option, equation and symbols

• Page Layout

  • Themes, orientation and page setup options are available under the page layout option

• Formulas

  • Since tables with a large amount of data can be created in MS excel, under this feature, you can add formulas to your table and get quicker solutions 

• Data

  • Adding external data (from the web), filtering options and data tools are available under this category

• Review

  • Proofreading can be done for an excel sheet (like spell check) in the review category and a reader can add comments in this part 

• View

  • Different views in which we want the spreadsheet to be displayed can be edited here. Options to zoom in and out and pane arrangement are available under this category