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Where’s That Feature: Excel

Microsoft has an interactive web site that shows you where a feature in Microsoft Excel 2003 can be found in Microsoft Excel 2007.  Just click on a toolbar button or menu item and the site shows you where that feature can be found in the new version.

Recent Documents

Here’s how to control your recent documents list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

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Turn off gridlines in your Excel applications

Turn off gridlines in your Excel applications

Gridlines in your Excel worksheets can be quite distracting. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to make gridlines invisible in Excel 2002, 2003, and 2007.

Add autonumbering to your Excel spreadsheet

Add autonumbering to your Excel spreadsheet | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com

Unlike Access, Excel does not have an autonumbering feature that increments a number each time you add a new row. With Excel 2003 and 2007, you can use the Row function to add your own autonumbering to a data list.

Automatically add new data to an Excel chart | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com

Automatically add new data to an Excel chart | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com

Once you go through all the work of creating and formatting a chart, you don’t want to have to start over again when new data comes in. Fortunately, you don’t have to with Excel. You can simply copy and paste the new data to your chart.

More ways to use Excel to save yourself time and effort.

Enter text without changing the underlying cells in Excel 2007

Enter text without changing the underlying cells in Excel 2007

Excel cells are limited to 256 characters. However, the cell’s size and ability to display its contents change with the size of its surrounding columns. Excel 2007’s text boxes overcome these potential limitations

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Excel 2007

Here’s a link to the official Microsoft Excel 2007 training materials. They cover everything from the basics to creating PivotTables.

Each tutorial has information regarding the time it will take to complete, learning objectives, user ratings and they all have video components.