Datasheet

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Chapter 1: The Two-Dollar Tour
You can also create additional new documents. An easy shortcut to do
so is to press Ctrl+N. You can also choose File➪New. That latter
method has the advantage of opening a selection of templates you can
use to jumpstart your work if you don’t want a totally blank document
to start with.
Type Text
Putting text on the page (or onscreen) is a little different in each of the
three major Office applications: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Word: The main work area of the program is a blank
slate on which you can type directly. Just click in the
work area and start typing! Chapter 2 explains more
about typing and editing text. See Figure 1-8.
In Word, there is a single work area
Figure 1-8
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Excel: The work area is divided into a grid of cells.
Click any cell to make it active, and type to place text
into it, as in Figure 1-9. Chapter 7 shows how to
work with text in Excel cells.
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