Paul McFedries - Excel Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Microsoft Excel Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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1. Chapter 5
2. Chapter 6
3. Chapter 15

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 12
10. Chapter 13
11. Chapter 14
12. Chapter 15
13. Chapter 16
14. Chapter 17
15. Chapter 18
16. Chapter 19
17. Chapter 20
18. Chapter 22

Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful and sophisticated software programs available today. That power and that sophistication mean Excel can do some extraordinary, just-this-side-of-miraculous things, but they also mean that Excel comes with a learning curve. Sure, you can get productive with Excel amazingly quickly, but if you want to do more than just scratch Excel's surface, then you need to get comfy with many of the program's deeper and more useful features.

Sounds like a plan, right? But what's the best way to get to know this wider Excel landscape? Well, consider what you might do when you arrive in a city you've never visited. One way to get the feel for the place would be to wander the streets willy-nilly. Nothing wrong with that, but it will probably mean your knowledge of the city is scattershot and skin-deep. If you want to really get to know the place, then you need a guidebook that tells you what's worth seeing, how to get there, and what to do when you arrive.

Excel is no different. To really get to know the vast city of Excel, clicking commands and cells at random won't get the job done. Instead, it's much better to take a few guided tours that tell you what features are worth learning, how to find those features, and how to use them. This gives you the practical, hands-on experience you need to really learn what Excel can do.

As its name suggests, Microsoft Excel Workbook For Dummies is designed to give you the kind of hands-on experience with all the major aspects of the program you need to start using the program for business or home with a degree of confidence and efficiency. As youd expect from this type of book, the workbook is primarily composed of questions and exercises that give you plenty of opportunities to experience the purpose and benefits of Excels many features.

Its my hope that as a result of doing the exercises in this workbook, youll not only be in firm command of the basic skills necessary to work with confidence in Excel, but also have a good idea of the overall power of the program and what you can do with it.

By convention, all the text entries that you type yourself appear in bold. When it comes to instructions in the exercises throughout the workbook, youll notice two conventions:

• Ribbon commands often follow the sequence of the tab, command button, and drop-down menu option. For example, the command HomeFormatColumn Width means that you should select the Home tab, followed by the Format command button, and then finally the Column Width option on the menu that appears.
• Ribbon hot keys are often given following the Ribbon command sequence. For example, Alt+HOW selects the Home tab, followed by the Format command button, and then the Column Width option, entirely from the keyboard.
• Filenames in the exercises are shown in full, including their filename extensions as in Exercise3-1.xlsx or Spring Furniture Sales.xlsx. Keep in mind, however, that the display of filename extensions may be turned off on your computer and, in that case, the filenames appear in file lists without their filename extensions as in Exercise3-1 and Spring Furniture Sales.