Chapter 2. Getting Started and Getting Around the Worksheet

More Addresses Than the Phone Book—Cells, and How to Get There

Let's start at square one—literally, by returning to Excel 2010's blank worksheet, which is what you'll see when you enter the program, as shown in Figure 2-1:

The 2010 worksheet, or at least part of one

Figure 2.1. The 2010 worksheet, or at least part of one

And, as you scan this rather panoramic scene, we'll trot out a few more of those have-to-know concepts, ones you'll need to keep in mind in order to steer your course across all this territory spread out before you. You're looking at a worksheet—or more strictly speaking, part of a worksheet, an integral part of a ...

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