1. Lesson 14: Exploring Excel 2010

2. 2 Learning Objectives After studying this lesson, you will be able to:  Explain ways Excel can help your productivity  Navigate around the Excel window and issue commands  Enter text and numbers into cells  Distinguish between a text and a number entry in a cell  Save, “save as,” and close workbooks

3. 3 Presenting Excel 2010 How do you think you may use Excel?  Budgets  Lists  Tables  Tracking information  Charting data

4. Looking at the Window 4

5. Mousing Around in Excel Mouse pointer shape determines function 5 Can you find all eight different mouse pointers in this figure? Note! The active cell in this figure is A1.

6. 6 Navigating with the Scroll Bar Arrows let you scroll line by line Drag the scroll box to control your scroll Click the scroll bar to move one screen view at a time Tip! Remember that when you navigate with the scroll bar, the active cell does not change. The vertical and horizontal scroll bars both work the same way

7. Tabs, Ribbons, and Toolbars 7 Ribbon Tabs Quick Access Toolbar Note! Notice that you can add icons to the Quick Access Toolbar. You can also add custom tabs to the Ribbon.

8. The File Tab The File tab gives you access to commands that allow you to:  Perform file management tasks  Choose options to control how you work with Excel 8

9. 9 Contextual Tabs Appear in context with the task being performed

10. 10 Dialog Box Launcher When you click the dialog box launcher in the Font group, the Format Cells dialog box will open with the Font tab displayed

11. Hide the Ribbon Create more room on the screen to work 11 Expanded view Collapsed view

12. Entering Data Types of data Completing entries Enter and Cancel buttons Deleting and replacing entries Long text 12 All of the text is contained in cell A1

13. Working with Numbers The Number group on the Home tab allows you to choose how many numbers in the selected cells will appear 13 The dialog box launcher opens a window where you can choose from additional options to format your numbers

14. Saving Workbooks Save: Used for files that have already been saved; replaces a copy in the same place with the same name Save As: Used to save a file for the first time to with a new name or in a new location 14 These commands are accessed via the File tab of the Ribbon

15. Closing Documents The File Tab menu contains the Close command 15 Note! If changes were made since the last Save, Excel asks to save before closing.

16. Exiting From Excel The File Tab contains the Exit Excel command Closes the application and all open workbooks Prompts you to save if you have unsaved edits 16 Note! You can also click the Close button at the top-right corner of the window to Exit from Excel.

17. Lesson 14: Exploring Excel 2010