Basic spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel
This page contains support links for Office 365, Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and Excel 2013.
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Basics
New to Excel? Start with these basic guides to common Excel functions.
Resizing and moving
These helpsheets describe some common ways to change the size and contents of cells.
Formatting
Change the look of cells and Excel pages with these helpsheets.
Below are helpsheets for Excel 2003, Excel 2007, and Excel 2010.
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Basics |
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| New to Excel? Start with these basic guides to common Excel functions. | |||
| 2003 | 2007 | 2010 | |
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| Entering and editing data | PDF (146kb) | PDF (162kb) | PDF (166kb) |
| Formatting cells | PDF (263kb) | PDF (402kb) | PDF (921kb) |
| Sorting data | PDF (330kb) | PDF (253kb) | PDF (383kb) |
| Filtering data | PDF (310kb) | ||
Resizing and moving |
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| These helpsheets describe some common ways to change the size and contents of cells. | |||
| 2003 | 2007 | 2010 | |
| Inserting and deleting rows and columns | PDF (135kb) | PDF (114kb) | PDF (138kb) |
| Adjusting row / column width and height | PDF (138kb) | PDF (210kb) | PDF (340kb) |
| Dragging and dropping cells | PDF (68kb) | PDF (76kb) | PDF (94kb) |
| Pasting data using smart tags | PDF (107kb) | PDF (119kb) | PDF (191kb) |
| Pasting vertical data into horizontal format | PDF (191kb) | ||
| Selecting a large area of data | PDF (305kb) | PDF (242kb) | PDF (330kb) |
Formatting |
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| Change the look of cells and Excel pages with these helpsheets. | |||
| 2003 | 2007 | 2010 | |
| Formatting decimal places | PDF (168kb) | PDF (208kb) | PDF (309kb) |
| Format Painter | PDF (81kb) | PDF (105kb) | PDF (111kb) |
| Merging and unmerging cells | PDF (69kb) | PDF (84kb) | PDF (121kb) |
| Inserting headers and footers | PDF (128kb) | PDF (289kb) | PDF (607kb) |
| Text orientation in cells | PDF (77kb) | PDF (86kb) | PDF (135kb) |
| Wrapping text in a cell | PDF (75kb) | PDF (85kb) | PDF (212kb) |