Lesson 14: Exploring Excel 2010

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Learning Objectives

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

Explain ways Excel can help your productivity

Navigate around the Excel window and issue

commands

Enter text and numbers into cells

Distinguish between a text and a number entry in a cell

Save, “save as,” and close workbooks

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Presenting Excel 2010

How do you think you may use Excel?

Budgets

Lists

Tables

Tracking information

Charting data

Looking at the Window

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Mousing Around in Excel

Mouse pointer shape determines function

Can you find all eight different mouse pointers in this figure?

Note! The active cell in

this figure is A1.

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Navigating with the Scroll Bar

Arrows let you

scroll line by line

Drag the scroll box to

control your scroll

Click the scroll bar to

move one screen view

at a time

Tip! Remember that when you navigate with the

scroll bar, the active cell does not change.

The vertical and horizontal scroll

bars both work the same way

Tabs, Ribbons, and Toolbars

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Ribbon

Tabs

Quick Access

Toolbar

Note! Notice that you can add icons to the Quick Access

Toolbar. You can also add custom tabs to the Ribbon.

The File Tab

The File tab gives you access

to commands that allow you to:

Perform file

management

tasks

Choose options

to control how

you work with

Excel

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Contextual TabsAppear in context with the

task being performed

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Dialog Box Launcher

When you click the dialog

box launcher in the Font

group, the Format Cells

dialog box will open with

the Font tab displayed

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Hide the Ribbon

Create more room on the screen to work

Expanded view

Collapsed view

Entering Data

Types of data

Completing entries

Enter and Cancel buttons

Deleting and replacing entries

Long text

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All of the text is contained in cell A1

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Working with Numbers

The Number group on the Home tab allows you to

choose how many numbers in the selected cells will

appear

The dialog box launcher opens a window

where you can choose from additional

options to format your numbers

Saving Workbooks

Save: Used for files that have already been saved;

replaces a copy in the same place with the same

name

Save As: Used to save a file for the first time to with a

new name or in a new location

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These commands are accessed

via the File tab of the Ribbon

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Closing Documents

The File Tab menu contains the Close command

Note! If changes were made since the last

Save, Excel asks to save before closing.

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Exiting From Excel

The File Tab contains the

Exit Excel command

Closes the application

and all open workbooks

Prompts you to save if

you have unsaved edits

Note! You can also click the Close button at the top-right

corner of the window to Exit from Excel.

Lesson 14: Exploring Excel 2010