Excel 2010 Bible

Part I: Getting Started with Excel

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Figure 3.1 shows Excel with four workbooks open, each in a separate window. One of the win-

dows is minimized and appears near the lower-left corner of the screen. (When a workbook is

minimized, only its title bar is visible.) Worksheet windows can overlap, and the title bar of one

window is a different color. That’s the window that contains the active workbook.

FIGURE 3.1

You can open several Excel workbooks at the same time.

The workbook windows that Excel uses work much like the windows in any other Windows pro-

gram. Each window has three buttons at the right side of its title bar. From left to right, they are

Minimize, Maximize (or Restore), and Close. When a workbook window is maximized, the three

buttons appear directly below the Excel title bar.

Workbook windows can be in one of the following states: