Create Your First Microsoft Excel Workbook

Topic at a glance

Make sense of your data by organizing, calculating, and analyzing it with Microsoft Excel. You work with your data on one or more worksheets in a workbook.

Begin by entering values and text. Save time by using formulas to calculate values automatically. Then make the data attractive and readable, and emphasize key information, by formatting it. Or display it graphically in a chart. Then save and print the workbook.