Macintosh Bible, 8th Edition, The

Using Spreadsheets (ML/CB)

Ready to try your hand at creating a spreadsheet? It's not difficult, but there are a few tricks to learn. Read this section and you'll soon be using spreadsheets with style and verve, at least to the point where you can impress your friends and pets.

Spreadsheet Basics

Let's start with a few basics you'll use whenever you create a spreadsheet.

Moving around.

You can't put anything into a cell until you activate it. You can tell a cell is activated by looking at its border: An activated cell's border is thick or colored. You can activate a cell in two ways:

• Position the mouse pointer (which will look like a fat plus sign [+]) over a cell and click once. You have to click—just moving the mouse pointer over a cell does ...