EXCEL
The Excel Screen
Here is the Excel Screen.
Some of the icons at the top of
the screen are similar to other Microsoft Office packages like Word,
e.g. Save 
and Open 
Document. The main grid area
is called the ‘worksheet’ and there can be several worksheets in
a spreadsheet file which are accessed by the tabs at the bottom
of the screen. A file containing several worksheets is called
a ‘workbook’. When performing calculations you can refer to
values in the current worksheet, other worksheets in the same workbook
and even other worksheets in different workbooks. At the top
of the screen you can see the menu bar containing drop-down menus
such as ‘File’, ‘View’, etc and toolbars containing icons representing
commonly used functions.
Menu Bar
The Menu Bar is a standard Microsoft Office Menu Bar, it looks similar
to the menus available in Word and other Office packages.
By clicking on one of the menus you can display a drop-down list
of functions. If you see a double arrow at the bottom of the
list this means that the list has not fully dropped down, you can
either wait a few seconds for it to expand or click the double arrow
to see the full menu.
Some choices in the menus may have an arrow beside them pointing to the side, if you hover over an option like this a sub-menu will appear to the side of the menu list so you can choose the appropriate option. Once you have made a menu selection you may then need to complete a window to finish the process. If you ever get stuck, the Help function can be found under the Help drop-down menu.
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