Excel for Beginners: The Must-Know Basics from My First Try
Excel for Beginners: The Must-Know Basics from My First Try Excel for Beginners: The Must-Know Basics from My First Try In 2022, I landed my first office job and was handed a task: “Organize this data in Excel.” My heart sank—I’d never touched Excel before! The spreadsheet looked like a maze of boxes, and I felt like I was decoding an alien language. But after some trial and error (and a few YouTube tutorials), I learned the absolute essentials that turned me from a nervous newbie to a confident user. Here’s my story, packed with numbers, tables, and tips to help you master Excel’s basics and use them in everyday life. Basic #1: Navigating the Spreadsheet Grid My first Excel file had sales data for a small café I worked at—50 rows and 10 columns of numbers. Excel’s grid of cells (those little boxes) is where everything happens. Each cell has an address, like “A1” (column A, row 1). I learned to click cells to enter dat...