Chapter 1

Building Worksheets

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Creating a workbook from a template

Bullet Designing a worksheet from scratch

Bullet Understanding the different types of cell entries

Bullet Knowing the different ways of entering data in the worksheet

Bullet Using Data Validation to restrict the data entries in cells

Bullet Linking your worksheet to other Excel workbooks, Office documents, and web pages

Bullet Saving worksheets

Before you start building a new worksheet in Excel, it helps to have an overall design in mind. Fortunately, the design aspect of worksheet-building is often the easiest part because you can borrow the design either from another workbook you’ve created or from a special workbook file — called a template — that provides you with the new worksheet’s structure along with some predefined text and data.

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