ABSTRACT
This instruction chapter is intended to familiarize the user of Excel with basic numerical methods in Excel. Excel 2007 was used in this book.
Microsoft Excel is a commonly used spreadsheet program and has developed into a powerful software that can be used to solve many science and engineering problems. In contrast to MATLAB, Excel is most probably available in almost all PCs and it appears that its usage is increasing. It is also noted that the OpenOffice suite is a shareware version of Microsoft Office which also contains a spreadsheet similar to Excel, called calc. Excel is also used in education and it seems obvious that we also devote some attention to the basics of Excel and how it can be used to solve numerical method problems.
