Scribd
Upload
128 views

Lesson 8

This document discusses working with multiple worksheets in Excel. It covers how to name and rename worksheets, insert and delete worksheets, group and ungroup worksheets to apply formatting uniformly, and move or copy worksheets within and between workbooks. The steps provided allow the user to organize and manage multiple worksheets effectively.

Uploaded by

Puche Mara
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
128 views

Lesson 8

This document discusses working with multiple worksheets in Excel. It covers how to name and rename worksheets, insert and delete worksheets, group and ungroup worksheets to apply formatting uniformly, and move or copy worksheets within and between workbooks. The steps provided allow the user to organize and manage multiple worksheets effectively.

Uploaded by

Puche Mara
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 8

Lesson 8: Working with Multiple

Worksheets

Introduction
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
 Name worksheets
 Insert and delete worksheets
 Group and ungroup worksheets
 Copy and move worksheets

Naming worksheets
At the beginning of this course, we learned that the tabs displayed at the
bottom of the screen are named Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3. These are not
very informative names. Excel XP allows you to define a meaningful name
for each worksheet in a workbook—Checkbook, Reports, Accounts, etc.—so
you can quickly locate information.

To name a worksheet:
 Double-click the sheet tab to select it. The text is highlighted by
a black box.
 Type a new name for the worksheet.

 Press the Enter key.
 The worksheet is renamed.

Inserting worksheets
By default, each new workbook in Excel XP defaults to three worksheets
named Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3. You have the ability to insert new
worksheets if needed or delete others you no longer want.

To insert a new worksheet:


 Choose Insert Worksheet from the menu bar.
 A new worksheet tab is added to the bottom of the screen. It will
be named Sheet4, Sheet5, or whatever the next sequential sheet
number is in the workbook.

Deleting worksheets
Any worksheet can be deleted from a workbook, including those that have
data in it. Remember, a workbook must contain at least one worksheet.

To delete one or more worksheets:


 Click the sheet(s) you want to delete.
 Choose Edit Delete Sheet from the menu bar.

 The following dialog box appears if the sheet being deleted has
information in it.
 Click the Delete button to remove the worksheet and all data in
it.

Another way to delete or insert a worksheet is to right-click the sheet to be


deleted, then select Delete or Insert from the shortcut menu.

Grouping and
ungrouping worksheets
A workbook is a multi-page Excel document that contains
multiple worksheets. Sometimes you will want to work with the worksheets
one at a time as if each is a single unit. Other times, the same information or
formatting may need to be added to every worksheet. You can type and
retype the same information in each worksheet and apply identical
formatting, or you can group the worksheet and enter the information just
once.

Worksheets can also be combined into a group. Grouping worksheets allows


you to apply identical formulas and/or formatting across all worksheets in a
group. When you group worksheets, any changes made to one worksheet will
be changed in any other worksheets in the group. If several worksheets will
have the same data—regions, departments, quarters, months, weeks, and
days, for example—then you type it once and it will appear on every
worksheet included in the grouping.

To group worksheets:
 To select one worksheet, click the sheet tab.
 To select more than one worksheet, hold the Control key down
and click one or more worksheet tabs in the workbook.
 To select all worksheets in a workbook, right-click any
worksheet tab and choose Select All Sheets from the shortcut
menu.

When you're finished entering, moving, copying, or formatting data, you'll


need to ungroup worksheets. If you do not ungroup the sheets, any work you
do in one sheet will be duplicated in all of the others.

To ungroup worksheets:
 Right-click any of the selected worksheet tabs.
 Choose Ungroup Sheets from the shortcut menu.

Moving worksheets
When you move a sheet, you are moving it to a new location in this or
another workbook.

To move a workbook:
 Select the worksheet you want to move or copy.
 Choose Edit Move or Copy from the menu bar.
 In the Move or Copy dialog box, use the drop-down boxes to
select the name of the workbook you will move the sheet to (the
current workbook is the default). Also define where you want
the sheet positioned in the workbook.

 Check Create a copy to copy it.


 Click OK to move the worksheet to its new location.

Copying worksheets
When you copy a sheet, you make an exact copy of it.

To copy a worksheet:
 Select the worksheet you want to move or copy.
 Choose Edit Move or Copy from the menu bar.
 In the Move or Copy dialog box, use the drop-down boxes to
select the name of the workbook you will copy the sheet to (the
current workbook is the default). Also define where you want
the sheet positioned in the workbook.
 Click the Create a copy check box.

 Click OK to create an exact copy of the worksheet and move it


to the location specified.

You might also like