From the course: Excel 2019 Essential Training
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Understanding workbooks and worksheets
From the course: Excel 2019 Essential Training
Understanding workbooks and worksheets
- [Instructor] In Excel, there's some terms that we must use consistently. And one of them is workbook. When you open Excel, you will see an empty workbook at the top of the screen, typically it will say book one. A workbook and a file are two terms we us interchangeably. A file is a workbook, a workbook is a file. Every workbook initially has one worksheet in it. Typically sheet one. We see this on the bottom of the screen. We can add sheets. This current workbook, 01 Examples, has other sheets in it. We can add sheets, we can delete them, we can move them from left to right. The more you work with Excel, the more likely you are to see files that have more than one worksheet. Every worksheet has the same number of columns, those are vertical and identified by letters, and the same number of rows, those are horizontal, identified by numbers. If I use the right arrow key on my keyboard here, I can quickly come down to column Z, just to point out that the lettering scheme starts all…
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