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Excel 2010 User Interface

The Excel user interface contains various components to navigate and interact with worksheets. These include the ribbon menu, sheet tabs, active cell indicator, scrollbars, status bar and more. It allows accessing commands, entering formulas and values into cells, selecting ranges, viewing multiple sheets, and adjusting the worksheet view. The interface provides tools for common tasks like inserting functions, recording macros, navigating cells, and managing workbook windows.

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Excel 2010 User Interface

The Excel user interface contains various components to navigate and interact with worksheets. These include the ribbon menu, sheet tabs, active cell indicator, scrollbars, status bar and more. It allows accessing commands, entering formulas and values into cells, selecting ranges, viewing multiple sheets, and adjusting the worksheet view. The interface provides tools for common tasks like inserting functions, recording macros, navigating cells, and managing workbook windows.

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Excel 2010 User interface Description

Name Description

Active cell indicator This dark outline indicates the currently active cell (one of the 17,179,869,184 cells on eac
worksheet).
Application Close Clicking this button closes Excel.
button
Application Minimize Clicking this button minimizes the Excel window.
button
Column letters Letters range from A to XFD — one for each of the 16,384 columns in the worksheet. You c
click a column heading to select an entire column of cells, or drag a column border to chan
its width.
Expand formula bar Clicking this button expand formula bar to display more.
button
File button Click this button to open Back Stage view, which contains many options for working with y
document (including printing), and setting Excel options.
Formula bar When you enter information or formulas into a cell, it appears in this line.
Help button Clicking this button displays the Excel Help system window.
Horizontal scrollbar Use this tool to scroll the sheet horizontally.
Insert function button Clicking this button insert function.
Insert Sheet button By default, each new workbook that you create contains three sheets. Add a new sheet by
clicking the Insert Worksheet button (which is displayed after the last sheet tab).
Macro recorder Click to start recording a VBA macro. The icon changes while your actions are being record
indicator Click again to stop recording.
Minimize Ribbon Clicking this button hides the Ribbon, giving you a bit more space onscreen. When you clic
button tab, the Ribbon reappears.
Name box This field displays the active cell address or the name of the selected cell, range, or object.
Page View buttons Change the way the worksheet is displayed by clicking one of these buttons.
Quick Access toolbar This customizable toolbar holds commonly used commands. The Quick Access toolbar is
always visible, regardless of which tab is selected.
Ribbon This is the main location for Excel commands. Clicking an item in the tab list changes the
Ribbon that displays.
Row numbers Numbers range from 1 to 1,048,576 — one for each row in the worksheet. You can click a
row number to select an entire row of cells.
Sheet tab scroll Use these buttons to scroll the sheet tabs to display tabs that aren’t visible.
buttons
Sheet tabs Each of these notebook-like tabs represents a different sheet in the workbook. A workboo
can have any number of sheets, and each sheet has its name displayed in a sheet tab.
Status bar This bar displays various messages as well as the status of the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and
Scroll Lock keys on your keyboard. It also shows summary information about the range of
cells that is selected. Right-click the status bar to change the information that’s displayed.
Tab list Use these commands to display a different Ribbon, similar to a menu.
Title bar This displays the name of the program and the name of the current workbook, and also ho
some control buttons that you can use to modify the window.
Vertical scrollbar Use this to scroll the sheet vertically.
Window Close button Clicking this button closes the active workbook window.
Window Clicking this button increases the workbook window’s size to fill Excel’s complete workspa
Maximize/Restore If the window is already maximized, clicking this button “unmaximizes” Excel’s window so
button that it no longer fills the entire screen.
Window Minimize Clicking this button minimizes the workbook window, and it displays as an icon.
button
Zoom control Use this scroller to zoom your worksheet in and out.

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