Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Examining the Excel 2007 Workspace

This section will take you on a tour of not only the dashboard of Office Excel 2007 but also the trunk and the glove compartment. We might even slip on some gloves and take a peek under the floor mats.

Facts About Worksheets

Here are a few random tidbits of interesting information about the grid called the worksheet, shown in Figure 2-3.

Figure 2-3. The available space on the worksheet is much larger in Excel 2007.

• Column letters range from A through XFD. (After column Z comes column AA, after column ZZ comes column AAA, and so on, up to XFD.) Row numbers range from 1 through 1,048,576.

• The currently selected cell is ...