spreadsheet applications 1. common spreadsheet applications budgets, business and personal ** ...

SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS

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COMMON SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS

Budgets, business and personal **

Payroll **

Inventory

Invoices **

Balance sheets

Profit-loss statements

Income tax preparation

Currency conversion

Basically any use that requires calculations or charts

** - Illustrated in this lesson2

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Budget Illustration

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Payroll illustration

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INVOICE ILLUSTRATION

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Common formulas

All mathematical operations: sum (+), difference (-), multiply (*), divide (/)

Average

Max - highest

Min - lowest

Count – number of

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SPREADSHEET ENHANCEMENTS

Number styles, for example, accounting style

Borders

Cell formatting such as dates and percentages

Highlighting using conditional formatting

Charts and graphs

Font formatting including size, color, and alignment

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Commonly-used chart types

Column – usually compares >1 item vertically

Line – can compare >1 item or items over time

Pie – compares parts related to a whole, can ‘explode’ a slice for emphasis

Bar - usually compares >1 item horizontally

Area – similar to column but can show parts of a whole over time

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Illustrations of different chart types

The charts on the next few slides are based upon the Projected Expenses from the Budget Illustration Slide 3.

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Sample column chart

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Sample line chart

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Right-click in the chart area and you

can change the chart type from

column to line etc.


Sample pie chart

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Pie charts should include data labels

of percentages.


Sample bar chart

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Sample area chart

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Area charts are most effective with >1 set

of data, but this provides an example of what it looks like.


spreadsheet applications 1. common spreadsheet applications budgets, business and personal ** ...

Documents

budget spreadsheet

payroll formulas

spreadsheet technology

spreadsheet program

payroll illustration

common ones

text formatting

budget illustration