Appendix A

A Crash Course in Excel

In This Appendix

arrow Starting and stopping Excel

arrow Understanding Excel workbooks

arrow Entering text, numbers, and formulas into cells

arrow Creating formulas

arrow Navigating large workbooks

arrow Moving and formatting cell contents

arrow Using Excel functions

arrow Saving, opening, and printing workbooks

In this appendix, I review the basic Microsoft Excel skills that you may need in order to get the most benefit from some chapters in this book. If you plan to download and work with the sample workbooks from my website, www.stephenlnelson.com, you need some of the skills that this primer covers.

If you’ve used Excel much — even for just a few weeks — you probably already possess all these ...

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