Getting to the Workbook

This lesson demonstrates how to access an Excel workbook with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Excel 2010. We start the program and create a new blank workbook. We open existing workbooks and save.

The start times of various sections within the video are listed below.

Video sections and timestamps:

  1. Lesson outline (0:00)
  2. Desktop icon (0:20)
  3. Double click (0:30)
  4. Taskbar button (0:47)
  5. Click (0:59)
  6. Start menu (1:14)
  7. Leaving the backstage menu (1:49)
  8. Creating a new workbook (2:32)
  9. Open an existing workbook through the backstage menu (3:02)
  10. Open an existing workbook through Windows Explorer (3:29)
  11. Open an existing workbook by dragging the icon into Excel (3:50)
  12. Dragging (4:05)
  13. Open a recent workbook (4:27)
  14. Saving (4:44)