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Excel ® 2007 Workbook For Dummies ®Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, In

by Greg Harvey, PhD

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Excel ® 2007 Workbook For Dummies ®

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About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Grieving

For Dummies and Excel Workbook For Dummies, and the ever-popular Excel 2007 For

Dummies and Excel 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies He started out training

business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough-and-tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-’80s

of the last century After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on

to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco

His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing For Dummies books are,

of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the sub-ject matter at hand

Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a con-centration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired

To Chris, my partner and helpmate in all aspects of my life, and Shandy and Tara, my constant companions

Author’s Acknowledgments

I’m always very grateful to the many people who work so hard to bring my book projects into being, and this one is no exception This time, preliminary thanks are in order to Andy Cummings and Katie Feltman for giving me this opportunity to write in this won-derful workbook format

Next, I want to express great thanks to my project editor, Linda Morris (a more

knowl-edgeable person about the For Dummies series and better editor you’ll never find), and

to my partner in crime, Christopher Aiken (I really appreciate all your editing, additions, and comments on this one) Thanks also go to Joyce Nielsen for the great technical edit, Jennifer Theriot for coordinating its production, and everybody in the Wiley Publishing Composition Services department for their proofreading, indexing, and layout work

Transpose option, 88, 90, 91 two-variable data tables, 293–295 Type group, 226

Type list box, 148 Type Your Text Here section, 248, 249 Type_of_Asset cell, 160

• U •

Undo button, 14, 82, 131 Ungroup option, 231 Ungroup Sheets option, 106 Unhide button, 331

Unhide dialog box, 286, 331 Unhide Workbook list box, 286 UnitsInStock field, 271

Unmerge cell, 51 Unprotect sheet, 281 Unprotect Sheet dialog box, 281 Unprotect Sheet text box, 280 Unprotect Workbook dialog box, 284 Update cell, 122

Use Function drop-down list box, 265 Use in Formula button, 133, 134, 172, 176, 196, 351

Use Relative References button, 325, 326 Use Row and Column Names check box, 352

• V •

Value drop-down list box, 173 Value Field Settings dialog box, 305, 309, 312, 313

Value Of option button, 301 Value text box, 299

Value1 text box, 159 Value_if_false argument text box, 196, 199 Value_if_true argument text box, 196, 199 values

catching errors in formulas, 353–354 choosing between alternate, 194–197 finding highest/lowest, 177–178 returning single from lookup tables, 183–189 horizontal lookups, 184–187

vertical lookups, 187–189 rounding off, 163–165 Values argument text box, 159 Variations section, 225 VBAProject - Project Properties dialog box, 341 Vertical (Category) Axis option, 227

vertical lookups, 187–189

Vertical option button, 210 Vertical (Value) Axis option, 225 View Microsoft Excel button, 332, 335, 338, 341 View Microsoft Excel Design mode, 330 View Side by Side button, 135, 355 View Side by Side feature, 31, 44 View tab, 13, 285, 286, 331, 332, 355 Visual Basic button, 329, 338 Visual Basic Editor, 329–342 custom functions

creating, 336–342 saving in add-in files, 340–342 using in spreadsheets, 339–340 editing recorded macros, 331–336 overview, 329–331

VLOOKUP Function Arguments dialog box, 188 VLOOKUP option, 188

• W •

Warp section, 244 WEEKDAY Function Arguments dialog box, 150 WEEKNUM’s Function Arguments dialog box, 151

Weight option, 242, 243 Welcome to Page Preview dialog box, 59 what-if analysis, 289–302

exploring scenarios, 296–298 goal seeking, 299–300 performing with data tables, 289–295 single-variable, 290–293

two-variable, 293–295 Solver add-in, 300–302 What-If Analysis button, 291, 294, 296, 299 Widen column, 152

Width button, 68, 72, 239 Width option, 68

Width setting, 68 Window group, 285 Windows check box, 285 WordArt gallery, 244 WordArt Styles gallery, 225 WordArt Styles group, 244 Workbook section, 273 workbooks

creating with templates, 349 exercise files (on CD-ROM), 358–359 files, saving data in, 34–35

moving around, 23–27

to different worksheets, 26–27 within displayed area, 23–24

to new area of worksheets, 24–26

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Index

workbooks (continued)

opening new, 20–23 printing, 69–75 charts in spreadsheets, 72–73

in entirety, 70–72 ranges of cells, 69–70 spreadsheet formulas, 74–75 protecting

in entirety, 284–286 with passwords, 275–278 View Side by Side button, 355 worksheets

moving cell cursors

to different worksheets, 26–27

to new area of worksheets, 24–26 organizing spreadsheet data on different, 350 protecting, 278–284

Wrap Text button, 50, 126

• X •

.xls file format, 34 XLSTART folder, 331 xlsx filename extension, 21

• Y •

Year argument text box, 148 Years of Service drop-down list, 269 Your Query list box, 272

• Z •

ZIP Code format, 49 Zoom button, 60, 65, 78, 347 Zoom control, 10

Zoom dialog box, 78 Zoom Out button, 58 Zoom slider, 28, 48, 51, 57, 58, 59, 60, 78, 83, 106,

135, 146, 225, 347