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Microsoft Excel 365 Bible
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Microsoft Excel 365 Bible

by Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika
March 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1072 pages
28h 16m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 3Performing Basic Worksheet Operations

This chapter covers some basic information regarding workbooks, worksheets, and windows. You'll discover tips and techniques to help you take control of your worksheets and help you to work more efficiently.

Learning the Fundamentals of Excel Worksheets

In Excel, each file is called a workbook, and each workbook can contain one or more worksheets. You may find it helpful to think of an Excel workbook as a binder and worksheets as pages in the binder. As with a binder, you can view a particular sheet, add new sheets, remove sheets, rearrange sheets, and copy sheets.

A workbook can hold any number of sheets, and these sheets can be either worksheets (sheets consisting of rows and columns) or chart sheets (sheets that hold a single chart). A worksheet is what people usually think of when they think of a spreadsheet.

The following sections describe the operations that you can perform with windows and worksheets.

Working with Excel windows

Each Excel workbook file that you open is displayed in a window. A window is the operating system's container for that workbook. You can open as many Excel workbooks as necessary at the same time.

Each Excel window has five icons at the right side of its title bar. From left to right, they are Account, Ribbon Display Options, Minimize, Maximize (or Restore Down), and Close.

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