Ms-Excel is a full-featured window based spread sheet program developed by Microsoft Corporation is used by millions of people around the world. Excel includes all standard features of a spread sheet package like automatic recalculation, graphs and functions. It includes several advanced utilities like facility to include other objects within a spreadsheet, table and form designing.
Ms-Excel is developed on the GUI concept. A spreadsheet is a highly interactive computer program that consists of a collection of rows and columns that are displayed on the screen in a scrollable window. The intersection of each row and column is called a cell. A cell can hold a number of text string or a formula that performs a calculation using one or other cells.
Excel is used for a variety of applications. It is commonly used to automatic financial statements, business forecasts, transition registers inventory control, accounts receivable and accounts payable. The package provides statistical, analytical and scientific functions. Therefore, Excel is used in many scientific and engineering environments to analyze numerical data and present findings. Excel comes across as a powerful and flexible graphical presentation tool. Excel is also able to access data stored in Database formats. Excel may also used as a powerful application development tool.
FEATURES OF MS-EXCEL -
Ms-Excel is application software based on electronic spreadsheet made by Microsoft. This software allows us to retrieve data from external data sources and use it in worksheet.
Ms-Excel has a number of features. Some of the features of Ms-Excel are as follows-
1. Excel has 65536 rows and 256 columns in it.
2. It supports what if analysis to help predict the future values if there is a change in the cell content which is referred to in the formula.
3. Based on the data, graphs or charts can be created for quick assessment of a situation.
4. Excel provides facility of