Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Formulas Functions For Dummies
Chapter One
Tapping into Formula and
Function Fundamentals
In This Chapter
* Getting the skinny on workbooks and worksheets
* Understanding the parts of a worksheet
* Working with cells, ranges, named areas, and tables
* Applying formatting
* Figuring out how to use the Help system
* Writing formulas
* Using functions in formulas
* Using nested functions
Excel is to computer programs what a Ferrari is to cars: sleek on the outside
and a lot of power under the hood. Excel is also like a truck - it can
handle all your data, lots of it. In fact, in Excel 2007, a single worksheet has
17,179,869,184 places to hold data. Yes, that's what we said - over 17 billion
data placeholders. And that's on just one worksheet!
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Opening files created in earlier versions of Excel may show just the number
of worksheet rows and columns available in the version the workbook was
created with.
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