Excel 2000 From A to Z
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Copyright © Stephen L. Nelson
INTRODUCTION
You should find Excel 2002 From A to Z easy to use. You only need to know that the book organizes its information—key tasks and important terms—alphabetically in order to use the book. You’ll find it helpful, however, if you understand what this book assumes about your computer skills, what you should know about the Excel program from the very start, and what editorial conventions this book uses. This short introduction provides this information.
What You Should Know About Excel
You don’t need to know anything about Excel to use this book. But because understanding the Excel program window will make using Excel and this book easier.
Let me also point out two important items about the Excel toolbars:
• Excel’s toolbars vary greatly in their appearance. What you see on
your computer will surely differ from the figures shown in this book.
Excel personalizes your toolbars so that the buttons and boxes available
are those you are most likely to use. Usually, you want personalized
toolbars. If you don’t, refer to the Personalized Menus and
Toolbars entry for information on how to turn off personalization.
• While toolbar buttons and boxes aren’t labeled, if you point to a tool,
Excel displays the tool name in a popup box called a screen tip, or
in earlier versions of Excel, a tool tip. This means that if you don’t
know which button is the Bold button, for example, you can point
to buttons to see their names and learn their identities.
One other piece of information usually helps people just starting to use Excel. And here it is: Many of the dialog boxes that you use to tell Excel to perform some command include a preview area. This preview area shows how your settings look and therefore lets you experiment. In the pages that follow, for example, you learn that the FormatCell command provides a Font tab, which lets you change the font used for the selected text (see Figure 2). The Font tab includes a preview area that shows how your font settings look. The preview area helps you see the effect of your command specifications. Pay attention to the preview areas and you’ll find that you can answer many of your own questions.