Datasheet

You can change the theme in a workbook by clicking the Themes button in the
Ribbon’s Page Layout tab and selecting a new theme from the gallery that appears.
Remember: The three Microsoft Office applications — Excel 2007, Word 2007, and
PowerPoint 2007 — share the same themes. If you create reports that combine
elements from each application, your reports will have a consistent look if you
use a common theme.
Soliciting Help
With so many features and options available in Excel, it isn’t unusual to get
stuck once in a while. Fortunately, Excel provides the following methods for get-
ting help easily:
 Enhanced ScreenTips: Standard ScreenTips (also called ToolTips) have
been available in Excel for some time and provide textual context to
commands. After you hover your mouse pointer over a command in earlier
versions of Excel, Excel displays the action of the command using either a
single word (such as Paste) or a brief phrase (such as Increase Font Size).
A standard ScreenTip helps to decipher the meaning of a command button,
for example, when the button has no associated text and the command
meaning is unclear from the button icon.
Enhanced ScreenTips take the concept a step further by adding a short
description explaining the purpose of the command (hence the prefix
Enhanced). Some Enhanced ScreenTips include an explanatory graphic
when a text description is insufficient to explain the meaning of the com-
mand. Enhanced ScreenTips are available for all commands on the Ribbon.
In many cases, the ScreenTip explanation provides enough information, so
you don’t have to seek additional help. By default, Excel 2007 uses
Enhanced ScreenTips for all commands.
 Contextual help: If the Enhanced ScreenTip doesn’t offer enough for you
to understand the use of a specific command, you can get more detailed
help. After you hover the mouse pointer over the command, the Enhanced
ScreenTip that pops up lets you know whether additional help for the com-
mand is available by indicating that you can press F1 for more help.
If you are in a dialog box and need help for the dialog box options, press
the help button (the question mark) to get contextual help.
 General help: Click the help button (the question mark) on the right side
of the Ribbon or press F1 when you are not in a specific context (for exam-
ple, the mouse pointer is not hovering over a command in the Ribbon) to
display a list of general help topics.
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