Conventions Used in This Book
Take a minute to skim this section and learn about some of the typographic conventions used throughout this book.
Excel commands
Excel uses a context-sensitive Ribbon menu system. The words along the top (such as Insert and View) are known as tabs. Click a tab, and the Ribbon of icons displays the commands that are most suited to the task at hand. Each icon has a name that is (usually) displayed next to or below the icon. The icons are arranged in groups, and the group name appears below the icons.
The convention used in this book is to indicate the tab name, followed by the group name, followed by the icon name. So, for example, the command used to toggle word wrap in a cell is indicated as follows:
- Home ➪ Alignment ➪ Wrap Text
Clicking the first tab, labeled File, takes you to the Backstage window. The Backstage window has commands along the left side of the window. To indicate Backstage commands, we use the word File, followed by the...
