SECTION I: What is Excel?  What can I do with this?  SECTION II: Cells, Rows, and Columns  What is a cell?  What are rows and columns?  Inserting rows and columns  4  To Add a Row:  1. Select the entire row below where you want to add the new row.  Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that is commonly used for a variety of uses. At its core, Excel  is a table consisting of rows and columns. Excel is composed of rows and columns and uses a spreadsheet to  display data. Features include: calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language  called Visual Basic for Applications.  The data within a table can be sorted by any column, which means that the rows can be ordered by last  name or first name alphabetically, by the ID number ascending or descending, by the amount paid  ascending or descending, or by the date. You can also filter the data in the table to have only specific  values show.  A cell, outlined in green below, is an individual block within a table in which you can enter values, such  as words or numbers.  Rows, outlined in red below, are a horizontal group of cells. Columns, outlined in blue below, are a  vertical group of cells. This is a row  This is a column  This is a cell 