Learning to Create Basic Excel Spreadsheets If you haven’t used Excel before you may enjoy this short tutorial to get started and learn the basics. I have used Excel version 2010 for this tutorial, but Excel has not changed so much in it’s various versions and thus these steps are pretty much the same for all versions.Spreadsheets manipulate numbers of any sort such as maths, dates, mileages etc. The Excel page is divided into small boxes called ‘cells’. Columns always refer to those from top to bottom and start with a letter. Rows always refer to those from left to right and start with a number. Each cell has its own reference or address which is made up of the column number and the row letter. The box indicated here always shows the reference of the cell currently being used. Click on any cell to see its reference there. Use
