Easy Microsoft® Excel® 2010

Chapter 2. Managing Workbooks and Worksheets

Some of the more fundamental tasks you’ll undertake in Excel revolve around managing your workbooks and worksheets. A workbook is essentially a container that holds your worksheets. When someone refers to an Excel workbook, they are referring to the entire Excel file. A worksheet is the actual spreadsheet you work in. There can be many worksheets in a workbook—similar to pages in a book.

Excel 2010 includes a new File tab. This tab represents a return to the Excel 2003 look where you had a File menu option that wasn’t a part of Excel 2007, which used a logo similar to the Start Menu icon in Windows Vista and 7. The logo in Excel 2007 caused confusion because most users did not realize it was a menu ...