The following basic window appears when you start the excel application. Let us now understand the various important parts of this window.
The File tab replaces the Office button from Excel 2007. You can click it to check the Backstage view, where you come when you need to open or save files, create new sheets, print a sheet, and do other file-related operations.
You will find this toolbar just above the File tab and its purpose is to provide a convenient resting place for the Excel's most frequently used commands. You can customize this toolbar based on your comfort.
Ribbon contains commands organized in three components −
This lies in the middle and at the top of the window. Title bar shows the program and the sheet titles.
The Help Icon can be used to get excel related help anytime you like. This provides nice tutorial on various subjects related to excel.
Zoom control lets you zoom in for a closer look at your text. The zoom control consists of a slider that you can slide left or right to zoom in or out. The + buttons can be clicked to increase or decrease the zoom factor.
The group of three buttons located to the left of the Zoom control, near the bottom of the screen, lets you switch among excel's various sheet views.
The area where you enter data. The flashing vertical bar is called the insertion point and it represents the location where text will appear when you type.
Rows are numbered from 1 onwards and keeps on increasing as you keep entering data. Maximum limit is 1,048,576 rows.
Columns are numbered from A onwards and keeps on increasing as you keep entering data. After Z, it will start the series of AA, AB and so on. Maximum limit is 16,384 columns.
This displays the sheet information as well as the insertion point location. From left to right, this bar can contain the total number of pages and words in the document, language etc.
You can configure the status bar by right-clicking anywhere on it and by selecting or deselecting options from the provided list.
This appears as a very small arrow in the lower-right corner of many groups on the Ribbon. Clicking this button opens a dialog box or task pane that provides more options about the group.
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