Exploring the Excel Environment

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Exploring the Excel Environment

The tabbed Ribbon menu systemis how you navigate through Excel and access the various Excel

commands. If you have used previous versions of Excel, the Ribbon system replaces the traditionalmenus. Above the Ribbon in the upper-left corner is the Microsoft Office Button. rom here, you can

access important options such as !ew, "ave, "ave As, and #rint. $y default, the Quick Access

Toolbaris pinned next to the %icrosoft &ffice $utton and includes commands such as 'ndo andRedo.

At the bottom-left area of the spreadsheet, you will find wor(sheet tabs. $y default, three orksheettabsappear each time you create a new wor(boo(. &n the bottom-right area of the spreadsheet you

will find page view commands, the )oom tool, and the hori)ontal scrolling bar.

To !oom "n and Out#

*ocate the $oom barin the bottom-right corner.

*eft-clic( the sliderand dragit to the left to )oom out and to the right to )oom in.

To %croll &ori$ontally in a 'orksheet#

*ocate the hori$ontal scroll barin the bottom-right corner.

*eft-clic( the bar and move it from left to right.


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To (hange )age *ies#

*ocate the )age *ie optionsin the bottom-right corner. The #age +iew options are !ormal,

#age *ayout, and #age $rea(.

*eft-clic( an option to select it.

The default is +ormal *ie.

To Add (ommands to the Quick Access Toolbar#

lic( the arroto the right of the uic( Access toolbar.

"elect the commandyou wish to add from the drop-down list. It will appear in the uic(

Access toolbar.

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"elect More (ommandsfrom the menu and a dialog box appears.

"elect the command you wish to add.

lic( the Addbutton.

lic( O,.

The "ave, 'ndo, and Redo commands appear by default in the uic( Access toolbar. ou may wish to

add other commands to ma(e using specific Excel features more convenient for you.


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Microsoft Excelis a spreadsheetapplicationdeveloped by%icrosoftfor%icrosoft /indowsand%ac

&". It features calculation, graphing tools,pivot tables,and a macro programming language called+isual $asic for Applications.It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms,

especially since version 0 in 1223, and it has replaced*otus 1-4-3as the industry standard forspreadsheets. Excel forms part of%icrosoft &ffice.

Using other Windows applications

This section re5uires expansion.(April 2010)

/indows applications such as%icrosoft Accessand %icrosoft /ord, as well as Excel cancommunicate with each other and use each other6s capabilities. The most common are7ynamic 7ata

Exchange8although strongly deprecated by %icrosoft, this is a common method to send data betweenapplications running on /indows, with official %" publications referring to it as 9the protocol from

hell9.

:40;

As the name suggests, it allows applications to supply data to others for calculation anddisplay. It is very common in financial mar(ets, being used to connect to important financial data

services such as$loombergand Reuters.

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Using external data

This section re5uires expansion.(February 2010)

Excel users can access externaldata sourcesvia %icrosoft &ffice features such as @for example .odcconnections built with the &ffice 7ata onnection file format. Excel files themselves may be updated

using a %icrosoft supplied&7$driver.
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Excel can accept data in real time through several programming interfaces, which allow it tocommunicate with many data sources such as $loomberg and Reuters @through addins such as #ower

#lus #ro.

77E 8 97ynamic 7ata Exchange9 uses the message passing mechanism in /indows to allow

data to flow between Excel and other applications. Although it is easy for users to create such

lin(s, programming such lin(s reliably is so difficult that %icrosoft, the creators of the system,officially refer to it as 9the protocol from hell9.:40;In spite of its many issues 77E remains themost common way for data to reach traders in financial mar(ets.

!etwor( 77E Extended the protocol to allow spreadsheets on different computers to

exchange data. Biven the view above, it is not surprising that in +ista, %icrosoft no longer

supports the facility.:3C;

Real Time 7ata 8 RT7 although in many ways technically superior to 77E, has been slow to

gain acceptance, since it re5uires non-trivial programming s(ills, and when first released wasneither ade5uately documented nor supported by the ma

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