Microsoft Office

Essential Worksheet
Operations
This chapter covers some basic information regarding workbooks, worksheets,
and windows. You discover tips and techniques to help you take
control of your worksheets. The result? You’ll be a more efficient Excel
user.
Learning the Fundamentals of Excel
Worksheets
In Excel, each file is called a workbook, and each workbook can contain one or
more worksheets. You may find it helpful to think of an Excel workbook as a
notebook and worksheets as pages in the notebook. As with a notebook, you can
view a particular sheet, add new sheets, remove sheets, and copy sheets.
The following sections describe the operations that you can perform with
worksheets.
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding Excel worksheet
essentials
Controlling your views
Manipulating the rows and
columns
Working with Excel’s windows
An Excel workbook file can hold any number of sheets, and these sheets can be
either worksheets (sheets consisting of rows and columns) or chart sheets (sheets
that hold a single chart). A worksheet is what people usually think of when they
think of a spreadsheet. You can open as many Excel workbooks as necessary at
the same time.
Figure 4.1 shows Excel with four workbooks open, each in a separate window.
One of the windows is minimized and appears near the lower-left corner of the
screen. (When a workbook is minimized, only its title bar is visible.) Worksheet
windows can overlap, and the title bar of one window is a different color. That’s
the window that contains the active workbook.
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