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Guy Hart-Davis, Learn Office 2016 for Mac, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2002-3_12

12. Creating Workbooks and Entering Data

Guy Hart-Davis

(1)Barnard Castle, Durham, UK

In this chapter, you’ll get started quickly with Excel by creating and saving a new workbook. You’ll then look at how to navigate the Excel interface and work with worksheets and workbooks. You’ll also learn how to enter data in worksheets, how to select and manipulate cells, and how to use Excel’s various view features to see the worksheet data you need so that you can work easily with it.

Creating and Saving a New Workbook

When you launch Excel, the application by default displays the New pane in the Microsoft Excel Gallery dialog box automatically so that you can create ...

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