Guided Notes

Introduction to Excel

The Excel window, workbooks and worksheets, saving and sharing, and how formulas make a spreadsheet work.

Your way around the Excel window

Slide 1 / 5

Excel organizes its commands in the Ribbon — tabs such as Home, Insert, Formulas, and Data, each split into groups of related buttons. Above it, the Quick Access Toolbar keeps favorite commands (Save, Undo, Redo) one click away.

Below the Ribbon, the Name Box shows the address of the active cell and the Formula Bar shows what the cell really contains. The grid itself is the worksheet: columns are lettered, rows are numbered, and sheet tabs along the bottom switch between worksheets. The zoom slider and view buttons sit in the bottom-right corner.