Tools and Commands

Start off by opening up Excel 2007 by double clicking on the icon, either on your desktop or via the Programs list from the Start menu in the bottom left of your screen. All of this is covered in our Beginners Excel Course in Brighton, Sussex.

At the top of the Excel window is the title bar which will display the name of the workbook  you are working on (Excel files are called Workbooks!).  The default name for for a new Workbook is ” Book1″.

To the left of the Title Bar is the Quick Access Toolbar. This tool bar provides shortcuts to the most frequently selected tools. It looks like this:

If this is your first time using Excel then the bar will be set to its defaults: Save, Undo and Redo.

Undo will delete the action you have just taken and go back to what the situation was previously (useful if you make a mistake!)
Redo reverses the effects of pressing “undo” (if you decide it wasn’t a mistake after all!)
Save will initially prompt you to give your Workbook a name (something more exciting than Book 1!) and a location to save it in. After you’ve saved your Workbook for the first time, pressing “Save” again will save any updates you have made to the same file.

Located in the top left hand corner of the Excel Window is the Microsoft Office button. Click here to select from a variety of tasks from a drop-down menu including “Open”, “Save”, “Save As” etc… If you’ve worked with other Office product’s you’ll be familiar with these options.

In order to work well with Excel you have to give it the right instruction, and most of these are available on the ribbon. The ribbon is located below the Quick access toolbar across the top of the window. The ribbon is made up of lots of different tabs which display their corresponding command instructions when clicked. These tabs allow you to issue commands, access menus or access dialog boxes. There is also a “dialog box launcher” that, when clicked will offer additional commands that you may wish to use.    Here is a picture of the Ribbon:

Excel Ribbon

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