Datasheet

Understanding Excel’s Interface
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You can drag toolbars to the sides and bottom of your screen as well. If a tool-
bar is docked on the side of the screen, you will have to move your mouse to
the top of the toolbar instead of the left end to find the four-headed arrow.
Task Pane
New to Excel, starting with Office XP, is the task pane. Microsoft added this feature to give
you a larger, more obvious, area to find some commonly used tasks. Though the task pane in
some of the other Office programs greatly improves the usability of the program (Power-
Point’s Animation task pane and Word’s Styles task pane, for example), in Excel it doesn’t add
much new, but it’s worth mentioning. By default, the task pane should appear on the right side
of your screen when you first open Excel. If it is not there, choose View 
Task Pane.
EXERCISE 1.1
Moving and Resizing Toolbars
1.
From the View menu, choose Toolbars  Formula Auditing. The Formula Auditing tool-
bar is displayed as a floating toolbar.
2.
Move your mouse pointer to the top edge of the toolbar, until you see a double-headed
black arrow. Click and hold this arrow and drag the edge of the toolbar up to make it taller.
Then drag it down to restore it to its original shape.
3.
Click your mouse pointer anywhere on the toolbar’s title bar and you will see a four-
headed arrow. Click and hold this arrow to move the toolbar to a different location on
your screen.
4.
Drag the toolbar to the top of your screen until it docks itself with your other toolbars.
5.
Move your mouse pointer to the left end of the docked toolbar until you see your mouse
pointer turn into the four-headed arrow. Then click and hold to drag the toolbar back to
a floating position on your worksheet.
6.
Double-click the toolbar’s title bar. It will redock itself wherever it was last docked.
7.
Using the four-headed arrow on the left end of the toolbar, drag the Formula Auditing
toolbar so it is above the Formatting toolbar and below the Standard toolbar.
8.
Move your mouse pointer to the toolbar’s left end again and, with the four-headed arrow,
drag it back to the middle of the worksheet.
9.
Click the X on the right end of the toolbar’s title bar to close it.
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