Introduction

This is for all you excel lovers. I am starting this blog to help thousands of people who wish to know excel indepth. I always faced this challenge when I started excel reporting 7 years back. Today I head the MIS Reporting Team for a Multinational company. All this in 7 yrs. Imagine I did not know anything of excel 7 yrs back .....Its been a long journey....I want to share my learnings with everyone.Also I want to help others to learn excel and help them excel in life.This blog is aplatform for us to meet and help each other

Friday, October 31, 2008

Lesson 1 - Chapter 1 - Intro

The Excel 2007 interface has been redesigned compared to the older versions of Excel we’re all used to. In place of the old pull-down menus, Excel 2007 now relies primarily on theRibbon, a block of commands displayed at the top of the screen and divided into distinctblocks called tabs. All that’s left of the old pull-down menus is the pull-down menuopened with the Office Button, which replicates most of the File commands. Also, inplace of the many toolbars of previous Excel versions, Excel 2007 offers a single toolbarcalled the Quick Access toolbar.The exercises in this first chapter are designed to get you familiar with the new Excel2007 interface. As a result of doing these exercises, you should be comfortable with allaspects of the display screen and the command structure and ready to do all the rest ofthe exercises in this book.Identifying the Parts ofthe Excel Display ScreenBefore you can start using Excel 2007, you have to be familiar with its display screen

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Lesson Number 1 - Creating Spreadsheets

Lesson Number 1 is made up of five chapters designed to give you practice in all the spreadsheet basics, all the way from starting Excel to editing a completed spreadsheet
  1. introduces you to the new user interface in Excel 2007 in the form of the
    Office menu, the Ribbon, and the Quick Access toolbar.
  2. Enables you to practice entering spreadsheet data.
  3. Runs you through formatting spreadsheet data.
  4. Gives you training in all aspects of printing the completed spreadsheet.
  5. Gives you plenty of experience with making modifications to the completed
    spreadsheet.

Some Basics to learn and follow

In order to each one of us to follow this I will put one tutorial every day
Starting with simple stuff to advanced calculations 1 by 1 everyday

Introduction

This is an introduction post for all you excel lovers. I am starting this blog to help thousands of people who wish to know excel indepth. I always faced this challenge when I started excel reporting 4 years back. Today I leadthe Global Reporting Team for a Multinational company. All this in 4 yrs. Imagine I did not know anything of excel 4 yrs back .....Its been a long journey....I want to share my learnings with everyone.
Also I want to help others to learn excel and help them excel in life.
This blog is aplatform for us to meet and help each other