Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac® Bible

Chapter 18. Proofing, Printing, and Collaborating in Excel

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Checking your spelling

• Previewing workbooks

• Printing workbooks

• Collaborating with a team

• Tracking and reviewing changes

Your presentation is in two days, and you've got PowerPoint slides ready to go. Now all you need to do is to be able to present the numbers that you've crunched in Excel, and you're all set. What you need to do is print your worksheets so the content is both clear and visually appealing. While the slides are what people see at the presentation, the Excel printouts are what they take back with them to study.

Or maybe you're a project manager tracking team progress over the course of a development cycle. You've been tracking everybody's assigned tasks and estimates in an Excel spreadsheet, and you need to print them so everyone can discuss them at the weekly meeting.

What these examples show is that no matter how productive we've become in the modern computer-enabled office, we still need to print stuff. Sometimes, it's just easier to sit with a printout and a highlighter, making notes.

This chapter explores Excel's print capabilities and shows you how to get the most from hard copies of your worksheets. However, if you're striving for electronic sharing, we show you how your team can work together using Excel's collaboration features, too.

Proofreading Workbooks

At first glance, it might not seem that Excel workbooks would need extensive proofreading, but if you think about it, Excel workbooks contain ...