Excel 2007 For Dummies
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Each new workbook you open in Excel 2007 contains three blank worksheets, although you can add many more. You can easily move between the worksheets in an Excel workbook by using the sheet tabs, the Sheet Tab scroll buttons, and keyboard shortcuts.

To activate a worksheet for editing, you select it by clicking its sheet tab. Excel lets you know what sheet is active by displaying the sheet name in boldface and making its tab appear on top of the others.

On the left side of the bottom of the Worksheet area, the Sheet Tab scroll buttons — First sheet, Previous sheet, Next sheet, and Last sheet — appear, followed by the actual tabs for the worksheets in your workbook and the Insert Worksheet button. If your workbook contains too many sheets for all their tabs to be displayed at the bottom of the Worksheet area, use the Sheet Tab scroll buttons to bring new tabs into view (so that you can then click them to activate them).

If you need more worksheets in your workbook, you can add them by clicking the Insert Worksheet button that appears immediately to the right of the last sheet tab.

Use the Sheet Tab scroll buttons and the sheet tabs to move between worksheets.
Use the Sheet Tab scroll buttons and the sheet tabs to move between worksheets.

You also can use the Ctrl+Page Down and Ctrl+Page Up keyboard shortcuts to display the next and previous sheet, respectively, in your workbook.

You can help distinguish the worksheet tabs in a workbook by applying different colors to the sheet tabs. Right-click the sheet tab, point to Tab Color, and then click the desired color from the resulting color palette.

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Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel Workbook For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 For Dummies, and the most popular being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Excel 2003 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, Greg 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 subject matter at hand.
Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May. Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired.

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