Transcript Slide 1

Intro to Excel
Spreadsheets
Nancy Clark
FSU College of Medicine
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What are they used for?
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Financial forecasting
Statistical analysis
Data collection
Data manipulation
Summarizing data
Communicating data
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Budgets
Research
Gradebook
Charts
Big tables
Job aids
Spreadsheet Construction
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Columns (letters)
Rows (numbers)
Worksheets
Cells (E9)
Mousing Around a Cell
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Highlight/Select
Move
Contents
Fill Contents
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Cell Formats
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Words
Numbers
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# decimal places
$
%
Days/Dates
Formulas Calculations…
45.2719
45.3
3/5/2002
5-Mar-02
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27%
5-Mar
STUDENT
$45.27
Formulas
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=A2+B2+C2
=SUM(A2:AS2)
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$29.00
$1,886.00
AutoSum
Formula
Results
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Formulas
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=Today()
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Average(range)
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Count(range)
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Max(range)
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Column
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(C2:C80)
Row
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(B2:AK2)
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IF(logical_test,value_if_true,value_if_false)
(A2:G50)
=IF(F3>89,"A",IF(F3>79,"B",IF(F3>69,"C","F")))
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=SUM (A2:AS2)
Function
Range
Formulas can be Filled Down
Insert menu, Function…, Help on this function
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More on Cell Formats
Alignment
 Word wrap
 Orientation
 Shrink to fit
 Font
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More on Cell Formats
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Width
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Height
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Merging and Splitting
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Add to Formating Toolbar
Highlight cells to merge
Click Merge Button
Unmerge
Copying and Pasting
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Highlight cells
Hit Copy (CTRL-C)
Dotted lines
Click on target cell
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Top of area
Hit Paste (CTRL-V)
Unless still dotted not
in Clipboard
CTRL to select multiple
targets
Worksheets
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Open
U:\Nancy Clark\Spreadsheets\Handbase Pt
Encounters.xls
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Sorting Data
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Entire worksheet of tabular data with
headings
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Data menu, Sort…
Small section of worksheet
Highlight section
 Hit sort button
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Formulas that Reference Other
Worksheets
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=COUNT(Allison!B2:Allison!B100)
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Allison!B2 -- cell B2 on sheet Allison
Copying Worksheets
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Edit menu
Move or copy sheet…
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Adding and Deleting Sheets
To add a sheet
 Insert menu
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Worksheet
To delete a sheet
 Edit menu
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Delete sheet
Page Setup (Format)
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Landscape or Portrait
Print to 1 page wide
Margins
Headers and Footers
Print Titles
Making Sheets Pretty
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Do it yourself method
Fill Color
 Font Colors
 Borders toolbar
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Autoformat (Format)
 Conditional Formatting
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Charts
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Visual
representations of
data
Select Data
Insert menu,
Chart…
Charts – Step 1
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Charts – Step 2
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Charts – Step 3
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Charts – Step 4
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Charts – Final
Patients by Age Group
0%
5% 5%
16%
0 - 3 wks
1 mo - 10 yrs
74%
11 - 24 yrs
25 - 64 yrs
65 yrs+
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Different Scales
Score on
Survey
% Not
Installed
PDxMD
4.76
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InfoRetriever
4.80
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ePocrates
4.87
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Stedmans
4.65
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CP Onhand
4.45
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PDA Software
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Score on Survey
% Not Installed
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PDxMD
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InfoRetriever
ePocrates
Stedmans
CP Onhand
Printing
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Always Print Preview
Page Setup
Select Print Area
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Highlight area
File, Set Print Area
File, Clear Print Area
Insert Excel Spreadsheets
Copy and Paste
 Use Insert Microsoft Excel Worksheet
button
 Double click on table or chart
 Calls up Excel
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Suggestion for Spreadsheet
Summarize your patient data
 No data? Do the composite.
 Do a chart of some part of the data
 Put the data sheet in as well
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Data
 Summary
 Chart
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Statistical Analysis
Using Excel
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Descriptive Statistics
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Distribution
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frequency
distribution
Histogram
Central tendency
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Mean
Median
mode
Dispersion
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Range
Standard deviation
Variance
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Not P (inferential
stats)
Central Tendency
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Mean
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Median
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=MODE(A2:A7)
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=MEDIAN(A2:A7)
Mode
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=AVERAGE(b2:b1500)
=COUNT(A2:A1500)
=COUNTBLANK(A2:B5)
Dispersion
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Range
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Standard deviation
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=STDEV(A2:A110)
Variance
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=MAX(A2:A60)- MIN(A2:A60)
=VAR(A2:A110)
Distribution
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Frequency distribution
Not easy – use SPSS
 FREQUENCY(data_array,bins_array)
 Use help
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Histogram
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Bar chart of frequency table
Data Tables
Field names at top
 Each row is a record (sample)
 Sorting whole table
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By one column
 By more than one column
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Sorting individual sections
Hands on experience
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Analyze data in examples.xls
Sensitivity, Specificity
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sensitivity =
a / (a+c)
specificity =
d / (b+d)
Patient Patients
s with
without
disease disease
Test is
positive
Test is
negativ
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a
b
c
d