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This video discusses the basics on how to start using Excel 2013. It also gives you a quick tour of some of the new features of Excel 2013 for you to get acquainted with all of them. Find out how to use the Excel Help options and how to open workbooks such as recent workbooks you've accessed, the SkyDrive, or workbooks saved on your computer. Know the basic terms used in Excel 2013 such as what is a workbook, a worksheet/spreadsheet, a cell, a row, a column, and merged cells.

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on Excel 2013. In this section, we’re going to our first look at Excel and the first thing I want to talk about is how you’re going to start Excel each time that you’re going to run it.

Now there are several ways of doing this and the way I’m going to do it on this occasion is I’ve actually put a shortcut to Excel 2013 on my Windows desktop. I’m running this course on Windows 8 and I, of course, I could start Excel 2013 from my Start Screen by tapping the relevant tile on my Start Screen. I could pin Excel 2013 to my taskbar on the Windows 8 desktop. So there’s three different ways of starting it. Of course, if you’re using Windows 7, you’ll have a Start Menu you could start it from or indeed pin it to the Start Menu. So whichever way you start it let’s get Excel 2013 started. There’s my shortcut. I’m actually going to double tap and Excel 2013 opens up.

Now even if you’ve used Excel 2010, this Start Screen will seem rather strange to you. It’s nothing like the one you’re used to. It’s even Excel 2010. So let me just do a quick tour of this screen. On the left we have facilities to open existing workbooks. And as we work through the first few workbooks on the course, we’ll see recently opened workbooks appearing in a list on the left here. This is particularly useful to enable you to open work you’ve been doing recently. But this General button here, Open other Workbooks, gives us access to any workbooks that are available.

The bigger right hand section here is basically the one for creating new workbooks and the emphasis in Excel 2013 is to give you access to a range of templates that you can use as a starting point for workbooks. I mentioned these earlier on. There is also a link here, a very specifically Welcome to Excel which gives you a tour of Excel 2013. So whether or not you’ve used Excel before, I suggest you take a little bit of time out to try that. The very first option here is Blank Workbook and you’ll very often start with a blank workbook. If you know what you want to do and you don’t need a template of some sort that’s a good starting point.
In the top right hand corner we have some very important little buttons up here.

The three on the right, the X is Close as you’d expect in a Windows application. We have a Maximize button to maximize the window, a Minimize button to minimize the window, and, of course, if it was maximized we’d have a Restore button to put it back to the last sized size which was not max or min. And then very importantly with the question mark here, and bear in mind I mentioned this earlier, if you’re using a touch device and you don’t have an F1 key, for example, to bring up Help, if you’ve started Excel 2013 by either double clicking a shortcut on your desktop or you’ve tapped from the Start Screen, you tap that question mark to bring up Help. And from there you can get through to the touch options as I mentioned before. So let me just quickly touch that. Now it’s important to realize here that with Excel 2013 we’re dealing with online Help here. So if you’re not connected to the internet, you won’t see this online Help. There are other Help options available and we’ll take a look at that a little bit later on in the course.

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