Getting Started With Excel 97

What is a Spreadsheet?

In today's world of information, there is a need to keep things organized and up-to-date. People need to organize department budgets, project sales for the upcoming year, even balance their own checkbook. With all of the numbers that are thrown out on a daily basis, a spreadsheet becomes a powerful tool for not only organizing information, but to alleviate most of the work people did on paper in the past.

It is helpful to the novice spreadsheet user to think of a spreadsheet as a huge piece of paper. This paper is organized into boxes so that data can be easily organized. These boxes on a spreadsheet are called cells. A cell can contain any data that you wish to put in it. A cell can also be used to manipulate data that is in other cells. In this section, we will discuss the following topics

 

Excel 97 Introduction Cell Addresses

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