Ch.5--"Excel and its function formula capabilities"

Excel gives an advantage to anyone who wants to use mathematical formulas. It has what it calls function formulas that can determine things like the max, min or average of a list of data. If there is a long list of data Excel is very useful because you don’t need to pull out a calculator and type in all of those numbers. In Excel all you do is click on the box you wish to perform a function on and then go to insert then function. Since there is such a huge library of functions Excel can perform you type in a description of the function you want and it searches in its library. Yet another advantage is it tells you how to enter the data in the formula to get what you want. Finding things like standard deviations, sums and averages can be long and hard work, but with Excel it is made easier and more efficient.