April 2025
Beginner
224 pages
6h 13m
English
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CHAPTER 2Creating Your First Excel Workbook
This chapter presents an introductory, hands-on session with Excel. If you haven't used Excel, you may want to follow along on your computer to get a feel for how this software works.
In this example, you create a simple monthly sales projection table plus a chart that depicts the data.
Getting Started on Your Worksheet
Start Excel and make sure you have an empty workbook displayed. To create a new, blank workbook, press Ctrl+N (the shortcut key for File ➪ New ➪ Blank Workbook). Enter some sales projections in the new workbook.
The sales projections will consist of two columns of information. Column A will contain the month names, and column B will store the projected sales numbers. You start by entering some descriptive titles into the worksheet. Here's how to begin:
- Select cell A1 (the upper-left cell in the worksheet) by using the navigation (arrow) keys, if necessary. The Name box displays the cell's address.
- Type Month into cell A1 and press Enter. Depending on your setup, either Excel moves the selection to a different cell or the pointer remains in cell A1.
- Select cell B1, type Projected Sales, and press Enter. The text extends beyond the cell width, but don't worry about that for now.
Filling In the Month Names
In this step, you enter the month names in column A.
- Select cell A2 and type Jan (an abbreviation for January). At this point, ...
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