Excel Menu Bar

The top row of the Excel screen provides complete access to all of the product features. Some of the more important features are found in the File, Format, Tools and Help pull-down menus.

Briefly, the major functions of the various menu categories are:

File

Opening and Saving Workbooks
Print Page Setups
Print Previews
Printing
Exiting

Edit

Cut and Pasting
Deleting Sheets from Workbook

View

Altering Menu Tool Bars
Zooming In and Out on Current Sheet

Insert

Inserting New Rows, Columns and Sheets

Format

Altering Appearance of Current Sheet (font, alignment, numeric formats, color, borders, etc.)

Tools

Displaying Spreadsheet Grid
Displaying Row and Column Headings
Displaying Spreadsheet Cell Formulas

Data

Sorting Data

Window

Splitting Screen into Multiple Windows
Controlling Scrolling Process

Help

Full User's Manual
Beginner's Tutorial

Additional Excel Information

Getting Started With Excel

Button Bars

Cell Ranges

Relative & Absolute Addressing

Drag Copying

Function List

Function Wizard

Chart Wizard

Excel Example

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