Datasheet

Exercise 1-12: Saving a Spreadsheet

Save the Spring Sales table in a new My Spreadsheets folder inside the My Documents

folder on your hard disk:

1. With the Spring Sales table displayed on-screen, select cell A2 before you open

the Save As dialog box and then click the New Folder button in the Save As

dialog box.

2. Type My Spreadsheets (or My Practice Spreadsheets if you already have a My

Spreadsheets folder inside the My Documents folder) as the folder name in the

Name text box of the New Folder dialog box and select OK.

3. Replace Book1.xls in the Name text box by typing Spring Furniture Sale and

then clicking the Save button.

4. Close the Spring Furniture Sale workbook and then switch to Sheet1 of Book2.

Save this spreadsheet in the My Spreadsheets folder with the filename AutoFill

Practice after positioning the cell cursor in cell A1.

5. Close the AutoFill Practice workbook and the Hourly Wages1 workbook by exiting

Excel (File➪Exit or Alt+F4) — don’t save your changes to the Hourly Wages1

workbook.

Try It

Chapter 1: Entering the Spreadsheet Data

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