First let’s take a look at a what Excel looks like when you open the program and just start.

This is the “normal” view as indicated at the top left in yellow (right underneath the green “File” menu).  Notice you are working with a standard spreadsheet grid.

To see the Page Layout, simply click the “Page Layout” button, next to the “Normal” button and notice the change:

As you can clearly see, this Excel “Page View” allows to you really see what a spreadsheet will look like and how it will fit into a page.  Unlike in the past where you had to select a print area and then work backwards to make everything fit, the Page View tab makes working in Excel 2010 that much easier.

Excel will generally automatically set the print area, but if you print your worksheet and find that it isn’t printing correctly, you should consider adjusting the print area.

To adjust the print area:
1. First select the area you want to print (hold down the left mouse button and drag to select the area)

2. Making sure the area is still selected, in the Excel 2010 menu bar, select the Page Layout tab and the Print Area button (the area should still remain selected).

3. In the drop-down menu that appears, click “Set Print Area”.

Now when you print you will be only printing your selected print area.

First consider that every spreadsheet is not meant to be condensed into one page — you can shrink any print area of an Excel spreadsheet into one page — but it may be unreadable at that size.

So to shrink the worksheet to fit (in Excel 2010 — it’s a little different from previous versions of Excel, but the concept is the same)

1. Select your print area.  (Here’s a quick review of how to set the Excel 2010 print area).

2.  Go to the File menu at the top left, of the screen:

3. Select the Print option. You will see a choice at the bottom of the Settings area, Custom Scaling .

In the custom scaling area you will see a list of scaling options. You can choose which one meets your needs — but “Fit Sheet on One Page” is the most basic choice and the one I’ll mention here.

1. First, head to the Tools Menu and select Options.

2. In the menu that opens, select the General tab at the top, and locate the Recently used file list and make sure the box is checked. Then simply enter the number of files you want the program to “remember”.

3. Click OK to close the box and save your settings.

Note that you will not immediately see the recently used file list expand because Excel will only keep track of the files you’ve used since you made the above change – so files you used prior to the change will not show up in the list until you use them again, as Excel does not “remember” the previous files you were working on.

Here in Part 4, I will take you on a tour of the Insert menu.

Here in Part 3, I will take you on a tour of the View menu.

Here in Part 2, I will take you on a tour of the Edit menu.

Here in Part I, I will go over why we use excel, the basics of a workbook, and the File menu.

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1. Click the row that has the text you’d like to wrap.

2.  Click the format menu, and select cells.

3.  Select Wrap Text (make sure the box is checked) and click OK.

4. View your finished results.

In order to add a new worksheet to an existing excel:

1. Head to any of the existing Sheets titles (e.g. Sheet1) and right-click on the title. A contextual menu will appear. Then left-click on Insert. A menu will appear.

2. Go ahead and highlight “Worksheet” and click ok.

3. You will now have a new worksheet, Sheet4.