
How To Use A Spreadsheet
Excel® for the Mac and PC-Windows by John D. Winter Most good spreadsheets have very similar capabilities, but the syntax of the commands differs slightly. I will use the keyboard command and mouse syntax of Excel® by Microsoft for this example. I am assuming you have a mouse. In what follows, what you enter on the keyboard will be in bold. Special keys, like the key labeled “Enter” will be written as: , and menu options will be bold-italic. Let’s suppose you have a number of data points such as data on a series of cylinders.