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Start and Close Excel

Start and

Close Excel

ou can start the Excel program using the

Windows Start menu. When you open the

Start menu, a search field appears at the

bottom and the All Programs choice appears

immediately above the search field. Once you select

All Programs, Windows displays folders that contain

the programs installed on your computer. The shortcut

to start Excel appears in the Microsoft Office folder.

After you select Excel from the Microsoft Office folder

several times, it will appear on the Start menu in the

list of recently opened files. You can select Microsoft

Office Excel 2007 from that list to open the program.

If you use Excel regularly, you may want to pin Excel

to the Start menu or create a desktop shortcut for it so

that you can open it more quickly.

You can close Excel using a command on the Office

menu, or you can use the Close button in the upper-

right corner of the Excel window. Excel behaves

differently, depending on the method you choose to

close the program, the number of workbooks you

have open, and whether you have made changes to

any of the open workbooks.

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Start Excel

1 Click Start.

The Start menu appears.

2 Click All Programs.

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All Programs changes to Back.

3 Click Microsoft Office.

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The list of installed Microsoft Office

programs appears.

4 Click Microsoft Office Excel 2007.

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