Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Workbook For Dummies

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Workbook For Dummies
Wiley | 411 Pages | 2007 | ISBN-13:9780470169377 | PDF | 10 MB

Excel is the most sophisticated spreadsheet program available in the world of
personal computing. As such, this program is much more than just an electronic
version of an accountant’s familiar green sheet for crunching numbers. For millions of
users the world over, Excel is also their number-one forms designer, their interface to
the corporate database, as well as their premier charting program.
Given Excel’s indisputable versatility, it should come as no surprise that mastering the
basics of the program, not to mention its finer points, is no small undertaking. My experience,
however, in teaching adults to use all manner of Excel’s capabilities has convinced
me that this mastery is greatly accelerated with just a modicum of hands-on experience
judiciously applied to rather simple but realistic data-related problems.
About This Book
As its name suggests, Excel 2007 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 certain degree of confidence and efficiency. As
you’d 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 Excel’s many features.
It’s my hope that as a result of doing the exercises in this workbook, you’ll not only be in
firm command of the basic skills necessary to work with confidence in the Excel spreadsheet,
but also have a good idea of the overall power of the program through experience
with its features beyond the spreadsheet.
Conventions Used in This Book
By convention, all the text entries that you type yourself appear in bold. In addition, all
filenames appear in italic type even though they are not italicized when you see their
names in the Windows Explorer or the Excel Open dialog box.
When it comes to instructions in the exercises throughout the workbook, you’ll notice
two conventions:
Ribbon commands often follow the sequence of the tab, command button, and
drop-down menu option. For example, the command Home | Format | Column
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, entirely from the keyboard.
One other convention that you’ll notice used throughout the text is the display of the
names for Excel Ribbon commands, Quick Access toolbar buttons, and dialog box
options in the title case, wherein all major words are capitalized except for prepositions.
The title case is used to make these names stand out from the rest of the text. Often,
however, especially in the case of dialog box options, Microsoft does not always follow
this convention, often preferring to capitalize only the first letter of the option name.

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