Excel Workbook

A Microsoft Excel workbook is the name given to, what was originally named, a spreadsheet. A workbook is the file you open in Excel. Back in the days of MS-DOS and before Excel you just opened a file (of whatever flavor spreadsheet program) and called it a "spreadsheet".

A workbook is essentially what had been traditionally termed a "spreadsheet" by programs like the ones run on IBM mainframe computers and, more recently (and, by "recently", I mean late 80's), VisiCalc on the Apple II...

To save worksheet as Excel new workbook, it'll help to define a couple of points first. Quickly and simply, worksheets in Excel are the areas where you place data or your information. You can enter data in several worksheets at the same time. You can work with and edit, analyze and manipulate figures and make your observations across several worksheets simultaneously inside a workbook.

The workbook is the file where you store your worksheets. One or more worksheets are inside your...

When you develop a workbook in Excel you have the option of protecting the contents from being changed inadvertantly or accidently. This can happen in many ways. You yourself can be working in the workbook. Dragging and dropping or cutting and pasting and ooops! All the calculations are gone.

Or, if you've developed the workbook for others to use and don't want them to change the inner workings of your workbook, protecting it is a great option to have.

However, when you need to...