Formulas

Hello Ikram

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

In Excel:

+ or SUM is used for addition
- for subtraction
* for multiplication
/ for division

An example: assuming you have figures entered into cells A1 and A2 in Excel, and you are putting a formula into cell A3:

=A1+A2 or =SUM(A1:A2) will add the figures in A1 and A2 together

=A1-A2 will subtract the figure in cell A2 from the figure in cell A1

=A1*A2 will multiply the two figures together

=A1/A2 will divide the figure in cell A1 by the figure in cell A2. If you are dividing in order to get a percentage, then you would need to format cell A3 to show as a percentage (can be done on the Home ribbon).

With regard to shortcut keys, the ones that are most useful will be dependant on what you are doing most often in Excel. If you search in Excel help for shortcut keys, there will be a related topic that comes up in the Excel help from which you can print a list of all the shortcut keys in Excel.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Amanda