Happy Computers Essentials Guide to

Starting and Exiting Excel?

Starting Excel 97

Click on the Start Button The Start menu appears

Click on Programs The Programs menu will appear

Click on Microsoft Excel Excel will start

Exiting Excel 97

Click on the File Menu

Choose Exit

or

Click on the cross on the top right corner of the screen -

The Excel Screen

What Does What And Where?

Excel looks like this. Throughout the course you can mark in the names of certain areas of the screen so that you can build up your own personal reference about what does what! A more detailed look at the toolbar is on the next page

The Mouse Icons

The mouse icon changes according to where it is on the screen. This is because it performs different functions depending on where it is on-screen. The most common ones in Excel are:

Fill in your own description of these icons as the course progresses.

What Are All Those Pictures All Over The Screen?

The Standard Toolbar

New Format Painter Sort Ascending

Open Undo Sort Descending

Save Redo Chart Wizard

Print Insert Hyperlink Map

Print Preview Web toolbar Drawing

Spelling AutoSum Zoom

Cut Paste function Office Assistant

Copy

Paste

The Formatting Toolbar

Font Right align Increase indent

Font size Merge and Center Borders

Bold Percentage Fill colour

Italics Comma Font colour

Underline Increase decimal

Left align Decrease decimal

Centre Decrease indent

Tool Tips

You don’t have to remember what all the buttons do. You can use ToolTips.
Move the mouse cursor over the tool for a second and a ToolTip will pop up and a description will appear on the status bar at the bottom of the screen