Anatomy of an Excel Workbook: Build a foundation for success by mastering user fundamentals

Sometimes we take for granted what users know. While Microsoft Excel may be familiar to you, if you are on a help desk you will have to explain how the application works to users that fall within a vast range of skill level and knowledge. This series of Excel tutorials can make that training much simpler.

For a user who has never worked with Microsoft Excel before the sight of hundreds of rectangular cells, all asking for input, can be an uncomfortable experience. If you are the information technology professional tasked with instructing such users, it is best you start with the fundamentals and work your way forward from there. This download is the first in a series explaining the ins and outs of Microsoft's Excel application. In this edition of the series, Scott Lowe describes the basic fundamentals of Excel navigation, concentrating on the standard menus and toolbars. This download tutorial deals with the fundamentals of Excel, but there is so much more to learn. What aspects, functions, commands, and/or features would you like to see covered in future installments of the series?

You can get access to the entire Excel series using this link to the excel anatomy tag

This download is also available as a TechRepublic article.