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Creating a worksheet

Creating a worksheet - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Creating a worksheet

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Now, what we'll do is create a brand- new worksheet from scratch and this is a very typical thing that you open Excel, you have a blank sheet rather than something that somebody has given to you, and you go. So let's click Cell A1 if you need to, where Column A meets Row 1, and let's just start typing. I'll say Two Trees is the name of our company, Olive Oil Company. Now when you're done typing you know you're done typing but Excel doesn't know you're done typing, and you see you have your cursor flashing there. Well, in order to tell Excel that you're done and you want to make this permanent, you have to press the Enter key. If you start typing, let's say go down here and type Sales, if you don't press Enter nothing happens and in fact if you hit the Escape key, then it goes away. Now that's not an undo because you haven't done anything yet. So let's type in, again, let's say Sales of bath soap, first half of year. And again, you know you're done typing, you have to tell Excel. So we…

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