Datasheet

To print the help topic currently displayed in the Excel Help window, click

the Print button (with the printer icon) on its toolbar. Excel then opens a

Print dialog box where you can select the printer and options to use in print-

ing the information.

To display a table of contents with all the main categories and subtopics

arranged hierarchically, click the Show Table of Contents button (with the

book icon) on the toolbar.

Migrating to Excel 2007

from Earlier Versions

If you’re a brand new Excel user, you’re going to take to the program’s new

Ribbon User Interface like a duck to water. However, if you’re coming to Excel

2007 as a dedicated user of any of the earlier Excel versions (from Excel 97 all

the way through Excel 2003), the first time you launch Excel 2007 and take a

gander at the Ribbon, you’re probably going to feel more like someone just

threw you into the deep end of the pool without a life preserver.

Don’t panic! Simply use this section of the chapter as your Excel 2007 life pre-

server. It’s intended to get you oriented, keep your head above water, and

have you swimming with the new interface in no time at all. Just give me five

minutes of your precious time and I promise I’ll have you up and running with

Excel 2007 and, maybe even smiling again. Now, take a deep breath, and here

we go. . . .

First, the bad news: there is

no Classic mode in Excel 2007 that will magically

turn that fat, screen-real estate stealing Ribbon back into those sleek and tried

and true pull-down menus (thanks Microsoft, I needed that)! After the wonder-

ful designers and engineers at Microsoft got through dumping all the pull-down

menus and toolbars that you worked so diligently to master and on which you

relied every Excel workday of your life, there was just nothing left for them to

hang a Classic mode onto.

Now, for the good news: you really don’t need a Classic mode — you just

need to find out where those scoundrel engineers went and put all the stuff

you used to do so effortlessly in versions of Excel before the Ribbon User

Interface. After all, you already know what most of those pull-down menu

items and toolbar buttons do; all you have to do is locate them.

Part I: Getting In on the Ground Floor

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