Calculations available in Microsoft excel

 Calculations available in Microsoft excel

Some people think that excel is for tabulating name since it has some lines while others feel that excel is for tabulating numbers for easy recording. Microsoft excel goes beyond just writing of names or numbers. You can do a lot of calculations in an excel and we will be explaining some of them in this article.

Microsoft office is generally a great software that should exist in everyone's system. The package as a whole is something you can never avoid to use at least once before a full year runs out. For me, anytime buy a new system or format my system, there are some applications i install first before others. Few of the applications that are a must have for me after a successful installation of the operation system (WIN11) are Microsoft office, Whatsapp, Browsers, Notepad ++ and Adobe acrobat reader. 

The above listed applications are the must have for me and any other aside the ones listed above are just extras for me. My current system have only those basic apps i listed above, though i intend to install other needed application as time progress.

Going back to our major focus today, excel is an application that allows you do lots of calculation without actually using a calculator. Excel can act as your calculator if you find yourself where calculator is needed and it is not readily available. In this article, i will explain some of the calculations with pictures.

Addition in excel

In the picture above, if you want to do the addition of the five numbers and you need the sum to be in the space beside total, you can use sum function. As seen in the picture above, the numbers to be calculated falls within B10 and B14, the calculation formular will hence be =SUM(B10:B14). The sum will now be equal to 166 as seen in the picture below. You can try it out from your end and share observation in the comment box.