EXERCISE: Create a Workbook V2
The first thing we need to do before anything anything else is learn how to create an Excel Workbook. This is a workspace or “spreadsheet” that we are going to work with throughout the entire course. We will create it and save it in a folder of our choice. Watch the video to see and learn how to create a workbook and follow the steps that follow.
This is a follow along video. To help you avoid going in and out of your browser, use the Picture in Picture (PIP) feature that allows you to view the video while you edit Excel worksheet. Play the video and then the PIP icon 
will appear next to the gear icon. Click on it and then go work on the Excel while you watch the video.
Exercise: Create an Excel Workbook
Here are the steps. click on the arrow and/or text to open the toggle to see more details.
Open Microsoft Excel and click on Blank workbook
Go to File tab and choose save.
- Click on Save As
- Then click on Browse to Select the location you want to save the file.
Choose the location or a folder where we will save our file. In my case I will save my excel workbook on the desktop.
By default the workbook is named Book1. We are going to change that to something meaningful. Let’s call it Chocolate-Sales.
After this click on save and your workbook will be saved on the desktop of your computer.
We are going to use this sheet from now on for future exercises.
For Google users
Throughout this course where there are differences between Microsoft Word and Google Doc, we will have a little blue button for Google users. If you click on this blue button, a new tab will open with information specific to Google users. Remember – this will only appear where there are major differences….but mostly Google and Microsoft are fairly similar.
