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Excel 2007 offers a wide range of customizable options that allow you to make Excel work the best for you. To access these customizable options:

• Click the Office Button
• Click Excel Options

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These features allow you to personalize your work environment with the mini toolbar, color schemes, default options for new workbooks, customize sort and fill sequences user name and allow you to access the Live Preview feature. The Live Preview feature allows you to preview the results of applying design and formatting changes without actually applying it.

Formulas
This feature allows you to modify calculation options, working with formulas, error checking, and error checking rules.

Proofing
This feature allows you personalize how word corrects and formats your text. You can customize auto correction settings and have word ignore certain words or errors in a document through the Custom Dictionaries.

Save
This feature allows you personalize how your workbook is saved. You can specify how often you want auto save to run and where you want the workbooks saved.

Advanced
This feature allows you to specify options for editing, copying, pasting, printing, displaying, formulas, calculations, and other general settings.

Customize
Customize allows you to add features to the Quick Access Toolbar. If there are tools that you are utilizing frequently, you may want to add these to the Quick Access Toolbar.

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Charts allow you to present information contained in the worksheet in a graphic format. Excel offers many types of charts including: Column, Line, Pie, Bar, Area, Scatter and more. To view the charts available click the Insert Tab on the Ribbon.

Create a Chart
To create a chart:

• Select the cells that contain the data you want to use in the chart
• Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon
• Click the type of Chart you want to create

Modify a Chart
Once you have created a chart you can do several things to modify the chart.

To move the chart:

• Click the Chart and Drag it another location on the same worksheet, or
• Click the Move Chart button on the Design tab
• Choose the desired location (either a new sheet or a current sheet in the workbook)

To change the data included in the chart:

• Click the Chart
• Click the Select Data button on the Design tab

To reverse which data are displayed in the rows and columns:

• Click the Chart
• Click the Switch Row/Column button on the Design tab

To modify the labels and titles:

• Click the Chart
• On the Layout tab, click the Chart Title or the Data Labels button
• Change the Title and click Enter

Chart Tools
The Chart Tools appear on the Ribbon when you click on the chart. The tools are located on three tabs: Design, Layout, and Format.

Within the Design tab you can control the chart type, layout, styles, and location.

Within the Layout tab you can control inserting pictures, shapes and text boxes, labels, axes, background, and analysis.

Within the Format tab you can modify shape styles, word styles and size of the chart.

Copy a Chart to Word

• Select the chart
• Click Copy on the Home tab
• Go to the Word document where you want the chart located
• Click Paste on the Home tab

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Excel Formulas
A formula is a set of mathematical instructions that can be used in Excel to perform calculations. Formals are started in the formula box with an = sign.

There are many elements to and excel formula.

References: The cell or range of cells that you want to use in your calculation
Operators: Symbols (+, -, *, /, etc.) that specify the calculation to be performed
Constants: Numbers or text values that do not change
Functions: Predefined formulas in Excel

To create a basic formula in Excel:

• Select the cell for the formula
• Type = (the equal sign) and the formula
• Click Enter

Calculate with Functions
A function is a built in formula in Excel. A function has a name and arguments (the mathematical function) in parentheses. Common functions in Excel:

Sum: Adds all cells in the argument
Average: Calculates the average of the cells in the argument
Min: Finds the minimum value
Max: Finds the maximum value
Count: Finds the number of cells that contain a numerical value within a range of the argument

To calculate a function:

• Click the cell where you want the function applied
• Click the Insert Function button
• Choose the function
• Click OK

• Complete the Number 1 box with the first cell in the range that you want calculated
• Complete the Number 2 box with the last cell in the range that you want calculated

Function Library
The function library is a large group of functions on the Formula Tab of the Ribbon. These functions include:

AutoSum: Easily calculates the sum of a range
Recently Used: All recently used functions
Financial: Accrued interest, cash flow return rates and additional financial functions
Logical: And, If, True, False, etc.
Text: Text based functions
Date & Time: Functions calculated on date and time
Math & Trig: Mathematical Functions

Relative, Absolute and Mixed References

Calling cells by just their column and row labels (such as “A1″) is called relative referencing. When a formula contains relative referencing and it is copied from one cell to another, Excel does not create an exact copy of the formula. It will change cell addresses relative to the row and column they are moved to. For example, if a simple addition formula in cell C1 “=(A1+B1)” is copied to cell C2, the formula would change to “=(A2+B2)” to reflect the new row. To prevent this change, cells must be called by absolute referencing and this is accomplished by placing dollar signs “$” within the cell addresses in the formula. Continuing the previous example, the formula in cell C1 would read “=($A$1+$B$1)” if the value of cell C2 should be the sum of cells A1 and B1. Both the column and row of both cells are absolute and will not change when copied. Mixed referencing can also be used where only the row OR column fixed. For example, in the formula “=(A$1+$B2)”, the row of cell A1 is fixed and the column of cell B2 is fixed.

Linking Worksheets
You may want to use the value from a cell in another worksheet within the same workbook in a formula. For example, the value of cell A1 in the current worksheet and cell A2 in the second worksheet can be added using the format “sheetname!celladdress”. The formula for this example would be “=A1+Sheet2!A2″ where the value of cell A1 in the current worksheet is added to the value of cell A2 in the worksheet named “Sheet2″.

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