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1. Becoming Acquainted with Excel

David Slager

(1)Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

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Excel is a powerful and versatile spreadsheet program that can be used for both business and personal needs. It has amazing capabilities that you can use to make any type of data you record more streamlined and productive. In the first chapter, you’ll learn the basics of creating worksheets, and how to use the Ribbon, a feature which drives the user-friendly resources in Excel.

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