The excel window can seem a little bit daunting to new excel users. So I wanted to take a few minutes and explain to you the different parts of the excel window. When you first open up a worksheet, this is what you’re going to see. Now, up here you have the office button. And if you click on this office button, you’re going to see that you can open a new button, a new worksheet. You can open, you can save, and those are your basic instructions to the worksheet that is underneath your office button. You have the quick access toolbar right here, which you can customize to add different frequently used icons to. You have the menu bar right here and these are tabs. Click on them and it’s going to show you a whole bunch of other buttons that you can use within these tabs to carry out your different tasks, the things that you get done within Microsoft excel.
Now if you hold your mouse over these buttons, it’s going to give you a screen tip. It’s going to basically tell what the button does. So if you’re not ever sure of what something does, just hover your mouse over it, and it will show you an explanation. And this is the ribbon; this is called the ribbon where all this tasks are at. You have your minimize buttons, your maximize buttons and your close buttons for both your worksheet and your work book. When you start a new work book, you’re going to have three worksheets. And you can see down below that you have sheet 1, sheet 2, and sheet 3. And you just click on them to display the different worksheets. You can also use these arrow keys to move back and forth the worksheets. Down at the bottom, you have a status bar which you can also customize on what you want to be displayed there. You have a right scroll bar, and a bottom scroll bar. Okay.
Now, the majority of what you see is the cells and if you click on a cell and these are the little squares, you’re going to see that it’s highlighted the column and the row. The columns are signified by letters, the rows are signified by numbers. When you come to an intersection, that’s what’s called your cell reference. So the cell reference would be C4, it starts with the column and then ends with the rows, C4. Click over here, we have E7. Okay. This up here will tell you the name box, will tell you your cell reference as you work in excel. And this right here is your formula box, or your text box, that’s where the text, the numbers, the formulas will all show up while your working with an excel.
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