Excel 2003 For Dummies
Chapter One
What Is All This Stuff?
In This Chapter
* Deciding how you can use Excel 2003
* Looking at cell basics
* Starting Excel 2003 from the Start menu or with a desktop shortcut
* Making sense of the Excel 2003 screen
* Getting the lowdown on the Excel 2003 toolbars
* Surfing an Excel 2003 workbook
* Selecting commands from the pull-down menus
* Selecting commands from the shortcut menus
* Getting some help from the Answer Wizard
* Getting the heck out of Excel 2003
Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2003 have become almost
as commonplace on today's personal computers as word processors and
games doesn't mean that they're either well understood or well used. In fact,
I encounter scads of users, even those who are reasonably well versed in the
art of writing and editing in Microsoft Word, who have little or no idea of
what they could or should do with Excel.
This lack of awareness is really a shame - especially in this day and age when
Office 11 seems to be the only software found on the majority of machines
(probably because, together, Windows XP or 2000 and Office 11 hog so much
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