Datasheet

Work with the Mini Toolbar and Context Menu
Work with the Mini Toolbar
and Context Menu
Y
ou can use the Mini Toolbar and the
Context menu to help you quickly format
text without switching to the Home tab. The
Mini Toolbar and the Context menu contain a
combination of the most commonly used commands
available in the Clipboard, Font, Alignment, and
Number groups on the Home tab.
The Mini Toolbar and the Context menu always
appear together when you work with shapes, text
boxes, WordArt, or cells containing text or numbers.
The Mini Toolbar does not appear when you work
with pictures, charts, Clip Art, or SmartArt.
The buttons that appear on the Mini Toolbar do not
change; you always see the same set of buttons.
However, the commands that appear on the Context
menu, also called a shortcut menu, change
depending on the cells or object with which you are
working. That is, Excel displays only those
commands on the Context menu that are relevant to
the cells or object you select; this is how the Context
menu got its name.
1
2
•
1 Select a cell or range of cells.
Note: See Chapter 4 for details on selecting cells.
PART I
Getting Started with Excel
11
chapter 1
2 Right-click the selection.
•
The Mini Toolbar appears above the
Context menu.
05_181706 ch01.qxp 1/31/08 9:44 PM Page 11