Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program you can use to enter and organize data, and perform a wide variety of number crunching tasks. You can use Excel strictly as a program for manipulating numerical data, or you can use it as a database program to organize and track large quantities of data. In this part, you learn how to enter data into worksheets and tap into the power of Excel's formulas and functions to perform mathematical calculations and analysis.

Chapter 9 teaches you how to enter data, while Chapter 10 shows you how to work with worksheets in an Excel workbook. Chapter 11 explains how to use Excel's formula and function tools. Chapter 12 shows you how to format data, and Chapter 13 teaches you how to turn rough data into presentable charts.

Chapter 9: Building Spreadsheets 138

Chapter 10: Worksheet Basics 154

Chapter 11: Working with Formulas and Functions 174

Chapter 12: Formatting Worksheets 196

Chapter 13: Working with Charts 212