Microsoft® Office 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 11. Inside Excel 2010

What’s in an Excel Workbook?

Navigating in Worksheets and Workbooks

Entering and Filling in Data and Series

Using Formulas and Functions

Formatting Cells and Ranges

PERHAPS because of its long association with accountants, Excel has a reputation as staid, even dull. It’s the software equivalent of a gray flannel suit. We think that characterization is unfair. Yes, it’s true that you can use Excel to count beans and widgets and calculate profits and losses with incredible precision. But you can also use this all-purpose tool for tasks that are completely unrelated to numbers. In the four chapters that begin here, we cover as many of those possibilities as we can.

In this chapter, we cover the nuts and bolts of Excel, with ...