10 Excel
2 Locate the folder containing your Chapter01 data fi les.
3 Double-click the Park workbook.
Excel opens the workbook as shown in Figure 1-8.
Excel Workbooks and Worksheets
Excel documents are called workbooks. Each workbook is made up of individual
spreadsheets called worksheets and sheets containing charts called chart sheets.
Opening a Workbook
To learn some basic workbook commands, you’ll fi rst look at an Excel work-
book containing public-use data from Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.
The data are stored in the Parks workbook, located in the Chapter01 sub-
folder of the Data folder. Open this workbook now.
To open the Park workbook:
1 Click the Offi ce button and then click Open from the Offi ce menu.
The Open dialog box appears as shown in Figure 1-7. Your dialog
box will display a different folder and fi le list.
Click to open the
currently selected
file in Excel
Display only
folders and
Excel files
Excel ribbon
Figure 1-7
The Open
dialog
box