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How to Use Excel 2007- Excel Tutorials for Beginners
Beginners Guide to Excel 2007

By Ted French, About.com

Using Microsoft Excel 2007

Using Microsoft Excel 2007

© Ted French

Related Article: Beginner's Guide to Excel 2003.

How to Use Excel 2007 is a Series of Excel Tutorials designed with the absolute beginner in mind. These tutorials will show you how to use Excel 2007 to produce a complete spreadsheet. The tutorials cover:

Parts of the Excel 2007 Screen

The main parts of the Microsoft Excel 2007 screen are covered in this article. Components include the Office button, ribbons, active cell, name box, column letter, row number, formula bar and sheet tabs.

Basic Excel 2007 Spreadsheet Tutorial

The tutorial, as the name suggests, shows you how to create a basic spreadsheet in Excel 2007. Topics covered include entering data, creating simple formulas, and formatting a worksheet.

Excel 2007 Formulas Step by Step Tutorial

You can use an Excel 2007 formula for basic number crunching, such as addition or subtraction, as well as more complex calculations such as payroll deductions or averaging a student's test results.

Excel Math

These articles cover how to carry out basic math operations in Microsoft Excel. If you want to know how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide numbers in Excel, these articles will show you how.

Excel 2007 AutoSum

The AutoSum feature is a shortcut to using Excel's SUM function. It provides a quick way to add up columns or rows of figures in a spreadsheet.

Excel 2007 Pie Chart Tutorial

This tutorial how to create and format a pie chart using many of the common features available in Excel 2007. Included is a step by step example.

Excel 2007 Column Chart

This tutorial covers creating a column chart or bar graph in Microsoft Excel 2007. Included is a step by step example of creating a column chart.

Excel 2007 TODAY Function

The TODAY function, one of Excel's date and time functions, is used to add the current date to a spreadsheet.

Add and Delete Columns and Rows in Excel

It’s a rare occasion when a spreadsheet doesn’t need a change of layout before it is finished. When this happens in Excel, with a click of the mouse you can easily add that extra column or delete those unwanted rows.

Change Column Widths in Excel

Widening columns in Excel is one of the most commonly performed operations. This article will show you how to carry out this task easily.

Excel 2007 Merge and Center Cells

The Merge and Center formatting feature in Excel 2007 is a handy option to quickly format titles and headings in Excel 2007 Spreadsheets. This tip will show you how to do it.
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