
Microsoft Excel – Excel from Beginner to Advanced

Status bar: This tells us what is going on with Excel at any time. If you want to access other sheets, just click on the sheet name (or use the shortcut CTRL+Page Up or CTRL+Page Down).ĥ.

To see more rows or columns you can use the scroll bars to the left or at bottom. But the spreadsheet grid shows few rows & columns of active spreadsheet. Each Excel file can contain several sheets. Spreadsheet Grid: This is where all your numbers, data, charts & drawings will go. You will understand the relevance of it once you start building formulas.Ĥ. Formula Bar: This is where any calculations or formulas you write will appear. The most important ribbons are – Home, Insert, Formulas, Page Layout & Data.ģ. Since Excel has 1000s of features, they are grouped in to several ribbons. It depicts all the features of Excel in easy to understand form. But you can add any feature of Excel to to Quick Access Toolbar so that you can easily access it from anywhere (hence the name).Ģ. When you start Excel for the very first time, it has only 3 icons (Save, Undo, Redo).

Quick Access Toolbar: This is a place where all the important tools can be placed. There are 5 important areas in the screen.ġ. When you open Excel, this is how it looks. So one of the basic survival skills is to understand how to navigate Excel and access the features you are looking for. It is very easy to get lost once you open Excel. Excel is a massive application with 1000s of features and 100s of ribbon (menu) commands.
