Wiley Excel 2007 For Dummies 978-0-470-03737-9 User Manual
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978-0-470-03737-9
Chapter 1
The Excel 2007 User Experience
In This Chapter
Getting familiar with the new Excel 2007 program window
Selecting commands from the Ribbon
Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
Methods for starting Excel 2007
Surfing an Excel 2007 worksheet and workbook
Getting some help with using this program
Quick start guide for users migrating to Excel 2007 from earlier versions
T
he designers and engineers at Microsoft have really gone and done it this
time — cooking up a brand new way to use everybody’s favorite electronic
time — cooking up a brand new way to use everybody’s favorite electronic
spreadsheet program. This new Excel 2007 user interface scraps its previous
reliance on a series of pull-down menus, task panes, and multitudinous tool-
bars. Instead, it uses a single strip at the top of the worksheet called the
Ribbon designed to put the bulk of the Excel commands you use at your
fingertips at all times.
reliance on a series of pull-down menus, task panes, and multitudinous tool-
bars. Instead, it uses a single strip at the top of the worksheet called the
Ribbon designed to put the bulk of the Excel commands you use at your
fingertips at all times.
Add a single remaining Office pull-down menu and sole Quick Access toolbar
along with a few remaining task panes (Clipboard, Clip Art, and Research) to
the Ribbon and you end up with the easiest to use Excel ever. This version
offers you the handiest way to crunch your numbers, produce and print pol-
ished financial reports, as well as organize and chart your data, in other
words, to do all the wonderful things for which you rely on Excel.
along with a few remaining task panes (Clipboard, Clip Art, and Research) to
the Ribbon and you end up with the easiest to use Excel ever. This version
offers you the handiest way to crunch your numbers, produce and print pol-
ished financial reports, as well as organize and chart your data, in other
words, to do all the wonderful things for which you rely on Excel.
And best of all, this new and improved Excel user interface includes all sorts
of graphical improvements. First and foremost is Live Preview that shows
you how your actual worksheet data would appear in a particular font, table
formatting, and so on before you actually select it. In addition, Excel now
supports an honest to goodness Page Layout View that displays rulers and
margins along with headers and footers for every worksheet and has a zoom
slider at the bottom of the screen that enables you to zoom in and out on the
spreadsheet data instantly. Last but not least, Excel 2007 is full of pop-up gal-
leries that make spreadsheet formatting and charting a real breeze, especially
in tandem with Live Preview.
of graphical improvements. First and foremost is Live Preview that shows
you how your actual worksheet data would appear in a particular font, table
formatting, and so on before you actually select it. In addition, Excel now
supports an honest to goodness Page Layout View that displays rulers and
margins along with headers and footers for every worksheet and has a zoom
slider at the bottom of the screen that enables you to zoom in and out on the
spreadsheet data instantly. Last but not least, Excel 2007 is full of pop-up gal-
leries that make spreadsheet formatting and charting a real breeze, especially
in tandem with Live Preview.
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