Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 6. Performing Calculations on Data

Chapter 6 at a Glance

In this chapter you will learn to:
✓	Naming Groups of Data.
✓	Creating Formulas to Calculate Values.
✓	Finding and Correcting Errors in Calculations.

Microsoft Excel workbooks give you a handy place to store and organize your data, but you can also do a lot more with your data in Excel. One important task you can perform in Excel is to calculate totals for the values in a series of related cells. You can also use Excel to find out other information about the data you select, such as the maximum or minimum value in a group of cells. Finding the maximum or minimum value in a group can let you ...