Appendix: Excel Menus

Shown below, in Figures 1 through 9, are the drop-down menus accessible from the Menu Bar at the top of the Excel window. Because Excel 2000 features personalized menus, you may not see all possible choices when you first select a menu.

You can control how the menu lists are displayed using the Tools menu, as follows:

1. On the Menu Bar click Tools.
2. Choose (click) Customize from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the Options tab to bring it to the front.
4. Check or uncheck the box next to "Menus use recently used commands first":
o An X in the checkbox means the menus will change to display the features you've used most recently.
o A blank checkbox means the entire menu will always be displayed.
5. Click the Close button to return to your workbook window.

Menu Notes: Three dots following a menu option (as in Print... on the File menu) indicate that choosing that item will display a dialog box. (The Print dialog box is illustrated in Figure 5, below) If you click on a menu item for which an "arrow" is displayed to the far right, a second, cascading menu will appear to the right of the initial menu. If there is a keyboard shortcut for a menu item, it is displayed to the right of the item. For example, on the File menu, the Ctrl+P notation to the right of the Print option means that, in lieu of using the mouse to initiate printing, you can hold down the CTRL key and tap the P key to display the Print dialog box.

The Menus

FIGURE	MENU
1	File
2	Edit
3	View
4	Insert
5	Format
6	Tools
7	Data
8	Window
9	Help (See also "How to Learn More" section of this guide

FIGURE 1 File Menu                                                                 FIGURE 2 Edit Menu 


































FIGURE 3 View Menu                                                               FIGURE 4 Insert Menu





















FIGURE 5 Format Menu                                                           FIGURE 6 Tools Menu

























FIGURE 7 Data Menu                                                          FIGURE 8 Window Menu






















FIGURE 9 Help Menu
















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