Chapter 9

Excel for the iPad

In This Chapter

arrow Getting acquainted with the Excel screen

arrow Viewing worksheets in different ways

arrow Inputting data in cells

arrow Establishing the format for data

arrow Building a formula to compute data

arrow Filtering and sorting data in tables

This chapter delves into Excel for the iPad, the spreadsheet application in the Office for the iPad suite. Use Excel to track and analyze numbers.

Like the other Office for the iPad applications, Excel isn’t as sophisticated as its Office 2011 counterpart, but it’s well designed and gives you the opportunity to do analyses on the fly. In this chapter, you discover how to enter and edit data in a worksheet, view a worksheet in different ways, format data, construct formulas, and put data in tables so that you can sort and filter it.

Finding Your Way Around the Excel Screen

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