This is the first video in a series

of Excel Basic Videos 1 to 25.

Now, in this first video, we're going

to talk about the Excel Grid, Formatting, Formulas, Cell

References, and Page Setup.

Now, this is a continuation of my Office 2016 video series.

This is video number 13 in that series.

Now, here's our list of topics.

And there are a lot of amazing topics.

Even just this one first video will give you

a lot of basic skills to accomplish tasks in Excel.

Now, this is our goal.

We're actually going to create a grade sheet--

names, assignments, numbers, and then formulas for average,

total, and even percentage grade.

All right.

I'm going to close this.

And here's our system of folders.

And of course, now that we're on to Excel,

we're going to be saving all of our files to 04 Excel.

Now let's open up a blank Excel workbook.

I'm going to click on the green x.

Now, just as in Word and PowerPoint,

the blank workbook is highlighted.

I can either click with my mouse,

hit Enter, or use the Escape key.

And here's our blank workbook.

The very first thing we do is we look up to the title bar.

Book 1 is not a good name, so we use our keyboard for save as--

F12.

Now, we're going to navigate to our folder.

And there it is--

04 Excel.

We're going to click down in the file name and we're going

to call this EB for Excel Basics 01 dash--

and this is going to be a Gradebook.

There's our name.

The file extension by default in Excel is dot xlsx,

and that's fine for us.

I'm either going to click Save or hit Enter

to enact that Save button.

Now, I want to zoom in, but, of course, just

like int Word and PowerPoint, instead of using our Zoom

bar down on the status bar, I want to hold Control and roll

my wheel.

Now, the first thing we need to talk about

is the structure of Excel.

Notice up at the top, I hover my cursor--

DEF.

If I click on the E, that's a column.

Columns are represented by letters.

If I go over to the rows--

2, 3, 4 5, and click on 6, numbers represent the rows.

Now, the reason that's so important

is because the intersection of a column and a row

is called a cell.

Now, the name of that cell is E6.

We can actually see the name of this cell by looking up.

This is called the formula bar.

And all the way on the left in the formula bar,

if you hover your cursor, is the name box.

We can see that that cell is named E6.

So the column is the letter.

The row is the number.

And I can click in any cell--

click there, and I know it's G6.

Now, the reason that knowing letters are columns,

numbers are rows, is because later, we'll

have to refer to our cell in formulas.

And knowing that E is the column and 6

is the row will be very helpful.

So if that's a cell and these are all cells,

then all the cells together make up what's called a Worksheet.

Now, we call them sheet for short.

Now, notice the little plus right there.

Sometimes we need new sheets.

We might need one for January, February, March.

You can simply click the plus, and there's

a new sheet inserted.

Now I can click back between the sheets.

I'm going to click on sheet 1.

Now, these are called Sheet Tabs.

Click back on Sheet 1.

Sheet 1 is not a good name for our sheet tab.

So to rename our sheet in the sheet tab,

we simply double click.

Now we can name this--

I'm going to name it GradebookFall17.

Now, if I come up to the ribbons and try to use something,

everything is grayed out.

That's because-- just like over in Windows Explorer--

we have to hit Enter to register that name.

So I hit Enter.

Now column, row, cell, sheet.

That's called a Worksheet tab.

All of the Worksheets together make up

what's called a Workbook.

And a Workbook has a name.

The name of our Workbook is EB01 Gradebook.

So this is called a Workbook file.

Now, the next thing we want to talk about

before we start entering data and numbers and formulas

is just something very basic.

Hey, this cursor right here--

that white thick cursor with a black shadow--

it's called the selection cursor, and here is why.

If I click in the middle of a cell and hold the click

and drag--

oh, look at that.

I can select or highlight cells.

So this is the selection cursor.

Now I'm going to select cell A1.

There's two other cursors we want

to learn about in this video.

If I hover right at the edge, that's called a move cursor.

Now, most of the time, the move cursor will get us in trouble.

But we need to know the difference

between selection, move, and--

right in the lower right-hand corner, that little green box--

that's called a Fill Handle.

If you move your selection cursor or move cursor

right over the Fill Handle, you'll see a crosshair.

Now, I like to call it--

instead of a crosshair, I like to call it an Angry Rabbit.

Now, we'll learn a lot of amazing tricks that we can do--

not with our selection, not with our move,

but with our Angry Rabbit cursor.

Those three cursors, we'll see in this video.

Hey, let's use our selection cursor.

Oh, we already have cell A1 selected.

I'm going to type something.

I'm going to type Data.

Now, to put something in the cell--

whether it's text, number, a formula--

you have a number of different options.

If you want to put the thing in the cell

and move the cursor down, you use the Enter key.

If, on the other hand--

I'm going to select the cell.

And remember, just like Word, if we have a word selected

and I want to replace it, I do not need to hit the Delete key.

I simply start typing.

I'm going to type Name.

Now we have something in the cell,

and we do not want to hit Enter to put it in and move

our cursor down.

Because we want to enter data across the columns,

I want to put the thing in the cell

and move my cursor to the right by hitting the Tab key.

Now, we're going to fill this out later with student names,

but we need quiz 1, quiz 2, quiz 3, and then test 1,

test 2, test 3.

So in cell B1, I'm going to type quiz space 1.

Now, instead of using Enter to put the thing in the cell

and go down or tab to go to the right,

I actually want to put the thing in the cell

and keep the cell selected.

So to do that, we use Control Enter.

Now, if you remember back to Word,

we used Control Enter a lot for page break.

But we're going to use Control Enter even more over here

in Excel because a lot of times we

want to put something in the cell and keep the cell

selected.

Now the reason we want the cell selected is we

might want to add formatting.

Or in our case, we want to copy it.

Now, remember, that little thing on the lower right hand corner

is called a Fill Handle.

And if you move your cursor over the Fill Handle,

that's the Angry Rabbit.

Now click-- that's a left click--

and drag.

Notice it's giving me a green box covering C1, D1.

Now let go.

Look at that.

Excel has so many magic tricks for our Angry Rabbit.

Anytime you have text and a number,

if you use your Angry Rabbit to copy it,

it will increment the numbers.

Now let's do the same thing over here.

I'm going to click in cell E1 with my selection cursor.

Test space 1.

My goal is to put the thing in the cell

and keep the cell selected, so I use Control Enter.

Now, hover my cursor over the Fill Handle--

not the move cursor, not the selection cursor.

It's the Angry Rabbit.

Click and drag all the way to G1.

Let go and look at that.

Now, I've got to come down below here

and show you a couple of other amazing tricks for that Angry

Rabbit.

I'm going to click in cell A12 and type J-A-N--

that's short for January--

Control Enter to put the thing in the cell

and keep the cell selected, point to the fill handle.

And when you see your Angry Rabbit, click and drag.

Now, that is amazing.

I'm building my calendars over here in Excel,

definitely not in a Word table.

It gets better than that.

If you put any date into a cell--

10 slash 10 slash 2017--

that's a date.

I'm going to use Control Enter to put the thing in the cell

and keep the cell selected.

Now I'm in the hover my cursor.

And when I see my Angry Rabbit, I'm

going to click and drag down.

And look at that.

That is a quick way to get a bunch of dates--

for example, if you're building a schedule.

That is amazing.

The Angry Rabbit does many more tricks.

That's just a few of them.

Now let's continue with our Gradebook up here.

I'm going to use my selection cursor and select H1.

I'm going to type Total tab--

to put the thing in the cell and move to the right--

percentage grade, and now I'm going to hit Enter.

Now, we're going to have names here of students.

But I want a row at the top to tell me

the maximum score for each quiz and for each test.

And then I want to add them all up

so I know the maximum points possible in the class.

So right below Name, I'm going to type Max Tab.

Now, quizzes are worth 20 points each.

So 20 Control Enter-- because I want

to put the thing in the cell and keep the cell selected.

And let's see what happens if I try to copy this using my Angry

Rabbit--

1, 1, and let go.

Oh.

It's going to give me just the number 20, which happens to be

exactly what we want.

Up here, that trick worked because there

was text and a number.

Down here it worked because internally, Excel

is programmed to create lists of months and increment dates

by day.

But if you use your Angry Rabbit on just a plain number

or a plain text item with no number, then it just copies.

That's exactly what we wanted there.

Man, that Angry Rabbit does a lot of amazing tricks.

I'm going to type 100, Control Enter,

and I'm going to use my Angry Rabbit to click and drag.

So each one of the tests will be worth 100 points.