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Microsoft Excel 2010 Training
Get to know Excel 2010:
Create formulas
 Course contents
• Overview: Making formulas add up
• Lesson: Includes five instructional movies
• Suggested practice tasks
• Test
• Quick Reference

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

Overview: Making formulas add up
This course lays out Excel formula
basics.

You’ll learn how to use formulas to do

simple math in Excel; how to make
formula results update automatically;
and how to use predefined formulas
called functions that do things like
calculate the amount of monthly
payments.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Course goals
1. Use Excel to add, divide, multiply, or subtract.
2. Learn how to write formulas and use math
operators so that Excel calculates them the right
way.
3. Write formulas that can automatically update
results when values change, or when you copy a
formula to another location.

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 Course goals, cont.
4. Know the different types of cell references and
when to use them when you copy formulas:
relative, absolute, and mixed.
5. Create formulas with functions to add numbers,
calculate monthly payments, and capitalize
proper names.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Introduction to formulas in Excel

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 Cell references in formulas

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The SUM and AVERAGE functions

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More about cell references and formulas

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 More about functions

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 Suggestions for practice
1. Type some simple formulas to add, subtract, multiply,
and divide.
2. Use multiple math operators in the same formula.
3. Add numbers by using the sum function.
4. Use the sum function to add two numbers in a column.
5. Copy a formula from one cell to another using relative
cell references.

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 Suggestions for practice, cont.
6. Create a formula with absolute cell references.
7. Create a formula with mixed cell references.
8. Create a formula using the PMT function.
9. Create a formula using the PROPER function.

Online practice (requires Excel 2010)

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Test question 1
Every formula in Excel starts with an equal sign. (Pick one
answer.)

1. True.
2. False.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Test question 1
Every formula in Excel starts with an equal sign.

Answer:
1. True.

From simple to complex formulas, an equal sign starts

every one.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Test question 2
What is the first rule of math operator precedence? (Pick
one answer.)

1. Take care of exponents (roots and powers) first.

2. Divide before you add.
3. Take care of anything in parentheses or brackets first.

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 Test question 2
What is the first rule of math operator precedence?

Answer:
3. Take care of anything in parentheses or brackets first.

Calculate whatever is in parentheses or brackets first. Then

go on to Exponents, followed by multiplication and division
(working from left to right), and then addition and
subtraction (working from left to right).

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 Test question 3
Which part of this math problem will Excel calculate first:
=30/5*3? (Pick one answer.)

1. Divide 30/5.
2. Multiply 5*3.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Test question 3
Which part of this math problem will Excel calculate first:
=30/5*3?

Answer:
1. Divide 30/5.

Divide 30/5, which leaves you with 6*3, which equals 18.

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 Test question 4
If you want to add the values that are in cells C1 and C2
(93 and 14), why would you use cell references in the
formula (=C1+C2) instead of just writing the formula like
this: =93+14? (Pick one answer.)

1. The formula is more professional looking.

2. The formula will be more accurate.
3. The formula result will automatically update when cell
values change.

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 Test question 4
If you want to add the values that are in cells C1 and C2
(93 and 14), why would you use cell references in the
formula (=C1+C2) instead of just writing the formula like
this: =93+14?
Answer:
3. The formula result will automatically update when cell
values change.
You can update the cell values without having to change
the formula. As each cell value changes, the formula result
automatically updates. If you typed the values themselves
into the formula, you’d have to revise the formula every
time you changed the values.
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 Test question 5
You’ve used the SUM function to add the numbers in
column C. You want to copy the formula from column C
to add the numbers in column D. What kind of cell
reference will be in the new formula in column D? (Pick
one answer.)

1. Absolute.
2. Mixed.
3. Relative.

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 Test question 5
You’ve used the SUM function to add the numbers in
column C. You want to copy the formula from column C
to add the numbers in column D. What kind of cell
reference will be in the new formula in column D?

Answer:
3. Relative.

When you copy a formula with a relative cell reference from

one cell in column C to another cell in column D, the cell
reference will automatically update to reflect the new
location of the formula.
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 Test question 6
You can enter formulas at the bottom of columns and at
the end of rows. (Pick one answer.)

1. True.
2. False.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas

 Test question 6
You can enter formulas at the bottom of columns and at
the end of rows.

Answer:
1. True.

Formulas are not restricted to just the bottom of columns.

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 Test question 7
You’re using the PMT function to figure out the monthly
payment on a loan. When you enter the Rate argument
(interest rate), you write it like this: 3.5%. (Pick one
answer.)

1. True.
2. False.

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 Test question 7
You’re using the PMT function to figure out the monthly
payment on a loan. When you enter the Rate argument
(interest rate), you write it like this: 3.5%.

Answer:
2. False.

If you are making monthly payments, you enter the

argument like this: 3.5%/12.

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 Quick Reference Card
For a summary of the tasks covered in this course, view the
Quick Reference Card.

Get to know Excel 2010: Create formulas