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Starting a New Document (work book)
Before you will be able to use Microsoft excel you should buy it, and you can find it at online stores or computers shops. Like we mentioned before, Excel is part of the Microsoft Office Package, and may include applications like Word and Powerpoint. Microsoft office may be in different versions, from 2000, XP and to the newest version 2003.

Now after installing microsoft office, which is pretty simple, just click the next button all through the proccess. You will have a few new icons on your desktop, if you can't see them, try looking in the Start Menu >>> Programs >>> Microsoft Office, and open the Excel shortcut. (Here you can choose an option to add a short cut "Icon" to your Desk Top.

Now you see the open-screen of the excel application. There are menu buttons and options all over. The white tabled place in the middle which looks like a lot of cells is the place to write your data, try taking your mouse there, clicking on the first column in the first row and writing some text like 'Hello Microsoft Excel'.  You can see that each column have a cell letter, and row number. Another thing which is very important, on the left lower place of the screen there are workbooks, these allow you to manage different pages of excel.

Now when you are on the first column in the first row, you can see at the upper right side of the screen the cell coordinate, like A1 for where your marker is now.

Now select(mark) part of your text and from the upper menu you can choose the 'B' / 'I' or the 'U' button to style the text. The 'B' button gives the text that you have selected a strong appearance, the 'I' button gives the selected text,Italics and the 'U' button gives an underline to the text selected.

You can use the toolbar to change font type, font-color and background colors simply by marking the text you want to change, and then selecting new size, color or font-type.

After finishing writing and stylyling the data you inserted, you need to save your file to your computer, or to some other storage method. You can also simply view the document before printing.  Send it to someone as an e-mail or as an instant message application. 

If you want to learn how to use extra features such as functions, graphics and others on your excel document, go to the next page and do it.

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