In this tutorial, whenever we indicate that you need to click a mouse button, it will mean to click the left mouse button – unless we indicate that you should click the right mouse button.  So, always move the cursor over the “place” we indicate and “click left” unless we tell you otherwise.

You should be “in” Outlook Mail 2007.  On the left side of your screen, there is a long column called the Navigation Pane.

Look at the bottom of the Navigation Pane and you will see a Calendar button.

Sizing your Graph Area - Click-on the upper right corner of your chart area.  You will see little circles now appear at the four corners and sides of the graph area.  Point to the upper right corner circle and move the cursor until you see an arrow with two heads.

If you would like to have logical names for your Excel 2007 spreadsheet tabs – rather than     Sheet 1 and Chart 1, we’ll show you how to do this.

To change text in Excel 2007 you need to click on the text, the Legend, or the axis on which the text is located. 

On Pages 44 & 45 you saw how you could change the colors of the bars in your chart (Chart Styles).  Here is the second way to change colors that we promised.

A Chart Styles menu screen (similar to the one below) will appear.  You can click the various choices as you desire.  Each time you click, you’re My Budget Chart will change to the Style you choseA Chart Styles menu screen (similar to the one below) will appear.  You can click the various choices as you desire.  Each time you click, you’re My Budget Chart will change to the Style you chose

Make sure that you can still see the Chart Tools Tab/Ribbon.  If not, click the Chart Tools Tab.

Before we work with Charts, there are a couple of ESSENTIAL steps we have to do.  First, we have to tell Excel 2007  what we want to see in our chart and then were we want the chart to go.

Conditional Formatting will let you show graphics in your spreadsheets!  The best way to describe this amazing new feature is to show you how it’s done.