Where is the formula bar in excel
Excel 2013 tutorial: Using the Formula bar | lynda.com
even if you have not yet used form is in
Excel you need to know about an
important aspect of the Excel screen
called the formula bar it's located
below the ribbon and above the column
letters in a worksheet it's right here
it's called the formula bar now in this
worksheet which is already started and
perhaps finished we don't know
necessarily if we use our arrow keys and
position the active cell for example
over one of the entries in row 6 we'll
see that it's a formula if I press the
up arrow and go to cell G 5 we see that
that's simply a value many times when
you're working with Excel either when
you're typing data or simply looking at
a cell you develop the habit of looking
in the formula bar and it's almost an
instinct like the way you look out of
the rear view mirror in your car when
you're driving we do it frequently and
often the key idea here is that when
you're looking at data that maybe you're
not too familiar with you want to know
often is it simply raw data or is it a
formula and so as I press the arrow key
to the right here now that may or may
not be something I'm familiar with but
it certainly is not 16-hundred really
that's actually a formula and the cell
to the right of that that's some kind of
formula as well maybe we haven't seen
that just yet but it too is not too 66.7
really the numbers off to the left the
sales numbers are just pure numbers and
text entries are usually exactly what
you see as you type data as you enter it
you'll be keeping an eye on the formula
bar and as you're exploring worksheets
that you're unfamiliar with you learn to
look at that formula bar frequently it's
always at the top of the screen and it's
a good visual check as to what your
worksheets really contain
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