Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Plain & Simple

Chapter 2. What’s New and Improved in Excel 2010

In this section:

• “Managing Excel Settings and Files in Backstage View”

• Previewing Data Using Paste Preview

• Customizing the Excel 2010 User Interface

• Summarizing Data Using More Accurate Functions

• Summarizing Data Using Sparklines

• Visualizing Data Using Improved Conditional Formats

• Creating and Displaying Math Equations

• Editing Pictures Within Excel 2010

One of the first things you’ll notice about Microsoft Excel 2010 is that the program incorporates the Microsoft Fluent interface, also known as the ribbon, which was introduced in Excel 2007. If you’ve been using Excel 2003 or an earlier version of Excel, you’ll need to spend only a little bit of time working with the new user interface to bring ...