Spreadsheets

Unit 1: Introducing the Spreadsheet

Lesson 1: Creating and Saving a Spreadsheet

How do you save a workbook?

When you create a new workbook document your document exists only in the volatile memory (RAM) of the computer until you save it to disk. (And why do they call it volatile? Because if your neighbor trips over the power cord to your computer all of your work in RAM which has not been saved to disk will be lost. This is likely to cause you to get volatile with your neighbor.)

Because Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications many of the commands and dialog boxes are shared between applications. All of the techniques for saving a word processing document can be applied to spreadsheet documents. To understand how to save a workbook, please refer to the objective on saving a Word document from the word processing module:

Saving a word processing document.