Guest Author - Chris Curtis

The Menu bar gives you access to all of the Excel’s commands. When you click on a menu selection it displays the commands from which you can select. On the left side of the cascading menu, you will see some menu choices with icon displays. These icons tell you that the menu command is also represented on one of the Tool Bars. Commands that have equivalent keyboard activation will show the keystroke combination to the right of the menu command. Menu choices with a small right pointing arrow head have sub-menus that will display when you hover your mouse pointer over the main menu choice. Commands that are light grey are ones that currently are not active based on your selection.

There is certain logic in the menu structure with which you will become familiar with experience. For example, if you wanted to change the appearance of your text, you want to format it. Commands for formatting cells, text, data, and formula results would naturally be found on the Format menu or Formatting Toolbar. Look at the menu choice and reason out what types of commands might be found within their selection. Don’t try to memorize command locations, but rather try to logically think about where it might be located within the menu choices.

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