In Excel 2007, use the "Format as Table" button in the Styles section of the Home tab.
It is on the Home Tab, in the Styles group. On older versions of Excel it is on the Format menu.
You can not merge excel documents into notepad, but you can copy data from Excel and paste it into notepad if you want to remove all of the formatting and have only plain text.
If you have 2007, go to the ribbon "Home" and click on "Merge". This will only take the first cell's information.
Yes, Excel can be used as the source of data for a Mail Merge of any kind, so that includes labels.
The Merge and Center button.
The name is "merge and center", which combines all highlighted cells. For newer versions of Excel this is on the "Home" tab.
Merge brings one to several individual cells from Excel into Word. The formatting in the merged Word document depends on Word, not Excel. If you would like to retain the same formatting as you had in Excel, then format the target location in Word to match the cell from Excel.
There is no formula error button in Excel. However, there is an Error Checking button on the Formulas ribbon in the Formula Auditing section in Excel 2007.
Merge Cells
There are a lot of things Word does, that Excel and Powerpoint don't. Probably the most significant of these is Mail Merge.
Excel 2003 and older: File menu button Excel 2007 and newer: MS Office button (circle at top left of window)