2007 Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple

Chapter 7. Working in Excel

In this section:

• What’s Where in Excel?

• Entering the Data and Editing the Data

• Excel’s Eccentricities

• Using a Predefined Workbook

• Formatting Cells

• Changing the Overall Look

• Formatting Numbers

• Moving and Copying Data

• Adding and Deleting Columns and Rows

• Creating a Series

• Organizing Your Worksheets

• Printing a Worksheet

• Adding and Viewing Comments

If you’ve never used it before, open up Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and take a look. You’ll see a worksheet that contains a seemingly endless grid of columns and rows—16,384 columns and more than a million rows! The space at the intersection of each column and row is a cell, so, although you’ll probably never need them all, you have billions of cells ready to hold whatever types of data you’ll ...