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    This document provides guidance on Excel practices for petroleum engineering. It outlines initial setup steps for enabling macros, circular references, automatic calculation, and add-ins. It also covers Excel etiquette like identifying sheets, using color conventions, and formatting columns and variables. The document describes built-in functions for filling cells, using the solver, making frequency tables, importing data, performing regressions, and sorting. It provides details on plotting, including formatting, types of charts, and trendlines. Finally, it discusses accessing the VBA environment and creating user-defined functions with comments.

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    This document provides guidance on Excel practices for petroleum engineering. It outlines initial setup steps for enabling macros, circular references, automatic calculation, and add-ins. It also covers Excel etiquette like identifying sheets, using color conventions, and formatting columns and variables. The document describes built-in functions for filling cells, using the solver, making frequency tables, importing data, performing regressions, and sorting. It provides details on plotting, including formatting, types of charts, and trendlines. Finally, it discusses accessing the VBA environment and creating user-defined functions with comments.

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    Excel Practices in Petroleum Engineering

    INITIAL SETUP FOR ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS:


    o Change trust settings for running VBA macros
    o Enable circular references
    o Enable automatic calculation
    o Enable solver add-in
    o Enable data analysis add-in

    Excel etiquette

    o ID sheet: author, date, title


    o Color convention for cell info
    o Location of figures in an individual sheet
    o For each column and variable: header in bold, unit, symbol.

    Built-in functions and utilities:

    o Fill
    o GoalSeek
    o Solver
    o Making frequency tables
    o Paste data from text file
    o Linear regression tool
    o Sorting many cells

    Plotting

    o Appearance: Font size, point size, line, background, tick marks, axis color, legend, axis title,
    vertical grid, data range, secondary vertical axis, log scale.
    o Types: scatter and bar.
    o Trendline.

    Programming

    o Accessing the VBA environment.


    o User defined function (UDF). No declaration of variable type. Comments.

    Key shortcuts

    o Ctrl+shft+Enter: apply matricial functions.


    o Ctrl+shft+down(up,right,left) bring to the end of the row/column
    o F4 Lock cell (C+R, R, C)
    o F2 Display equation inputs

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