Office 2013 All-In-One Absolute Beginner’s Guide

15. Excel 2013 Basics

In This Chapter

• Exploring the Excel Window

• Moving Around and Making Selections on a Sheet

• Using Templates to Quickly Create New Workbooks

• Working with Sheets and Tabs

• Working with Rows and Columns

• Working with Cells

Excel is a full-featured spreadsheet application that’s part of Microsoft Office 2013. With Excel, you can perform calculations, create charts, and analyze numerical data. An Excel file is called a workbook and each workbook can contain one or more sheets.

After exploring the Excel interface and its unique terminology, this chapter shows you how to create workbooks from scratch or from templates. It also shows you how to add, delete, and move sheets within a workbook or between workbooks.

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