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How to Use Microsoft Excel 2007 as a complete beginner

May 6, 2010 09:21 PM

Spreadsheet interface showing Excel menu options and a highlighted cell.

If you're a novice looking to learn how to use Microsoft Excel, a video series from digital spreadsheet guru ExcelIsFun is a great place to start. But which of his many series should you choose? The one titled "Excel Basics," that's which! This free video MS Excel lesson, the very installment in said tutorial series, covers the following topics:

1) What is Excel? Calculating formulas and Data Analysis

2) Rows, Columns, Cells, Worksheets, Sheet Tab Names, Workbook

3) File extensions (file types): .xlsx, .xlsm, .xls, .xlsb

4) Excel 2007 Ribbons

5) Excel 2007 Quick Access Tool Bar (QAT)

6) How to find features in Excel 2007

7) How to add buttons to the QAT Quick Access Toolbar

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