Excel is a Microsoft Office Program designed for creating spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are most commonly used to:

Create budgets

Show trends and projections

Track performances and results

A cell is where a row and column intersect

The cell outlined in black below is called A1

To automatically adjust a cell to fit your text click on the column letter

Click “Format” from your menu bar

Click “Column”

Click “Autofit selection”

The Chart Wizard in Microsoft Excel takes you through a step-by-step process to make a professional looking graph from numbers you entered as raw data. Adding such a graph will strengthen your presentation.

To make a chart using the Chart Wizard:

Select all of your data by clicking and dragging to highlight it

On the standard toolbar, click the chart wizard

Choose the chart type

Click next until you get to the “Chart Options” screen

Fill in your chart title and your names for your X and Y axes

Click next and then select “As an object in”

Click finish