Excel Basics:
Appearance

Step-by-Step: Appearance

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What you will learn:

to match window appearance -     window size     document size     toolbars shown     view used     zoom amount

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Start with: (a blank workbook)

1. If necessary, open Excel to a blank workbook.
    
2. Excel Window Maximized:
   Click the Maximize button in the title bar, if necessary. You usually need all of the display space you can get for spreadsheets!

   If you have a large monitor and/or are using a large resolution, your screen may still not look quite like the illustrations. Some illustrations use a smaller window to save space on the lesson page.
    
   

3. Workbook Window Maximized within the Excel window:
   Use the Maximize button in the workbook title bar, if necessary.
   
    
4. Bars Showing:
   Standard toolbar, Formatting bar, Formula bar, Status bar. For some reason these are controlled from two different places.
    

   • Standard and Formatting bars: Right click on any toolbar. A popup menu of toolbars appears. Checked names are for toolbars that are displayed. Unchecked ones are hidden. Click on a name to toggle the bar on or off.
      
     

   • Formula and Status bars: From the menu select  Tools  |  Options  |  View  Clicking on the checkboxes will put an checkmark in the box, which means the bar will show.
      

5. Use Normal view. ( View  |  Normal )
    
6. Set Zoom = 100% (the default).
    
7. Task Pane hidden:
   If the Task Pane is showing, click on the Close button at the top of the Task Pane.
   Usually you will want the Task Pane space for the spreadsheet.