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Basic Excel on
01 23rd, 2009 |
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When you first launch Excel 2007, the program opens up the first of three new worksheets (named Sheet1) in a new workbook file (named Book1) inside a program window like the one shown in Figure and Color Plate 1. The Excel program window containing this worksheet of the workbook is made up of the following components:
- Office Button that when clicked opens the Office pull-down menu containing all the file related commands including Save, Open, Print, and Exit as well as the Excel Options button that enables you to change Excel’s default settings
- Quick Access toolbar that contains buttons you can click to perform common tasks such as saving your work and undoing and redoing edits and which you can customize by adding command buttons
- Ribbon that contains the bulk of the Excel commands arranged into a series of tabs ranging from Home through View
- Formula bar that displays the address of the current cell along with the contents of that cell
- Worksheet area that contains all the cells of the current worksheet identified by column headings using letters along the top and row headings using numbers along the left edge with tabs for selecting new worksheets and a horizontal scroll bar to move left and right through the sheet on the bottom and a vertical scroll bar to move up and down through the sheet on the right edge
- Status bar that keeps you informed of the program’s current mode, any special keys you engage, and enables you to select a new worksheet view and to zoom in and out on the worksheet
At the very top of the Excel 2007 program window, you find the Office Button (the round one with the Office four-color icon in the very upper-left corner of the screen) followed immediately by the Quick Access toolbar. When you click the Office Button, a pull-down menu similar to the one shown in Figure 1-2 appears. This Office menu contains all the commands you need for working with Excel workbook files such as saving, opening, and closing files. In addition, this pull-down menu contains an Excel Options button that you can select to change the program’s settings and an Exit Excel button that you can select when you’re ready to shut down the program
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