Microsoft Excel 2007

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What is Workbook? (Refer Step by Step MS Office 2007 –
Chapter 5)

A Microsoft Office Excel workbook is a file that contains one or

more worksheets that you can use to organize various kinds of
related information.

By default, a new Excel workbook will contain three worksheets.

In Excel 2010 the number of worksheets in a workbooks is limited
only by your computer’s available memory
What is Worksheet?

A worksheet is a collection of cells where you keep and manipulate

the data.

Worksheets are sometimes called spreadsheets

Each worksheet is composed of a very large number of cells - which
are the basic storage unit for data in a spreadsheet file

The cells are arranged in a grid pattern using rows and columns.

there are 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per worksheet
What is Worksheet?

Benefits of Multiple Worksheets in a Workbook

The ability to have multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook allows
you to organize your data.

Each worksheet can contain a different set of data. For example, one
worksheet can contain your business’s sales data, a second can
contain your inventory and a third can contain your expenses.