Excel 2004
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This document outlines many of the new features of Microsoft Excel 2004 and how it differs from Excel X. It is written for people who are familiar with Microsoft Excel and are starting to use version 2004. Excel 2004 is the standard processing application for public computing labs.
Excel 2004 is very similar to Excel X, with only a few features added or changed. Both programs use the same file formatting, which means that Excel X can open, read, and edit Excel 2004 documents, and vice versa.
More specific differences between these two versions of Excel are detailed
below.
Open the Apple Menu and select Microsoft Excel. It may be listed under Microsoft Office 2004.
If you cannot find it in the Apple Menu, go into Macintosh HD > Microsoft Office 2004 and double-click on the Microsoft Excel program icon .
The Project Gallery
The Project Gallery is a window that links you to every application in Microsoft Office. It allows you to begin a new document using various formats and templates. The Project Gallery (pictured below) will appear every time you launch Excel 2004.
The Project Gallery now includes tutorials and other helpful functions for all of the applications in Microsoft Office.
To open a new Excel document, click once on the Excel Workbook button and a new page will appear. To open an existing document, you can go to the Recent tab or to the Open Other button on the lower left corner of the Project Gallery screen. (You can still open a new document by going to File > Open within Excel as well.)
If you want to open a new application, template, or document format once you are already within Excel, you can also access the Project Gallery manually by going to File > Project Gallery (or by pressing SHIFT + APPLE + P.)
3 Ways of Getting to Microsoft Excel Help Documentation
There are three ways of getting help from the Excel 2004 application. Below are detailed steps to get to these three separate help sections.
1. The Project Gallery - Learn
When you first open the Project Gallery, there is a Learn tab. If you click on it, a list of tutorials appears for every application in Microsoft Office. Click on Excel Samples under the Topics column. You can find tutorials on Charts, Data Analysis, Lists, PivotTable Reports, and Scenarios.
2. The Project Gallery - What's New
When you first open the Project Gallery, there is a Learn tab. If you click on it, a list of tutorials appears for every application in Microsoft Office. Click on What's New under the Topics column. You will find a list of files. Click on Excel.html. This will lead you to a webpage specifically outlining the new features of Microsoft Excel 2004.
3. The Help Menu
Inside Excel 2004, you can access the Help documentation by going to Help > Excel Help. This will take you to the main Excel 2004 Help page.
The What's New takes you to the same webpage as the icon from the Project Gallery. Read Me gives you the latest information about specific changes to Excel.
The Contents button lists the contents of the help section, and provides easy access to the instructions for many basic functions in Excel. Selecting this button will open the list of contents and by clicking on the arrows you can expand the list of topics. Click here to go to a list of all the topics covered in the Contents.
Discovering Microsoft Office is the actual, full in depth documentation.
Clicking on Discovering Microsoft Office takes you to the main menu for the Microsoft Office Help Documentation, a PDF file that lists all of the different areas of each application in Microsoft Office. Click on Creating a Spreadsheet Using Excel.
From there, navigate through the Excel documentation by using the Back/Forward buttons on the top of the document.
