Excel 2016 All-in-One For Dummies. Harvey Greg

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      This window contains a search text box with a Search button to the right (with the spyglass icon) below a group of command buttons (Back, Next, Home, Print, and Increase Font). To display a list of related help topics in the Help window, type a keyword or name of a category (such as printing, formulas, and so on) and then click the Search button or press Enter. The Excel 2016 Help window then displays a list of help topics for that category. To display detailed information about a particular help topic in this list, click its link.

      To print the contents of the help topic that you select, click the Print button (the one with the Printer icon) at the top of the Excel Help window. To return to the opening Excel Help screen, click the Home button. To return to the previous Help screen after reviewing several links in a row, click the Back button (the one with arrow pointing left).

      Launching and Quitting Excel

      Excel 2016 runs under both the older Windows 7 and 8 as well as the new Windows 10 operating systems. Although the basic procedure for launching Excel 2016 in all three versions of the Windows operating system is pretty much the same, due to the variations to the Windows desktop, you should consult the Excel startup sequence for your particular version of Windows, which I outline in the following sections.

      Windows 10 brings back the good old Start menu that many of you remember from much earlier Windows versions. The Windows 10 Start menu combines the straight up menu from earlier days with the tile icons so prominent in Windows 8. To open this menu to launch Excel 2016, click the Windows icon on the taskbar or press the Windows key on your keyboard.

Then, click the All Apps button under the list of the Most Used applications in the menu and scroll down to Microsoft Office 2016 under the E’s in the list. Select the Expand button (with the caret pointing downward) to display your Office applications where you click Excel 2016, as shown in Figure 1-8.

       Figure 1-8: Launching Excel 2016 from the Windows 10 Start screen.

       You can pin an Excel 2016 button to the Windows 10 Start menu and/or its taskbar so that you can launch Excel simply by selecting this button. To pin a button, right-click the Excel 2016 menu item in the Start menu and then select the Pin to Start and/or Pin to Taskbar items in the displayed context menu.

Starting Excel from the Windows 10 Ask Me Anything text box

      Instead of opening the Windows 10 Start menu and locating the Excel 2016 item there, you can launch the program by selecting this item from the Ask Me Anything text box. Simply type excel into this text box that appears to the immediate right of the Windows button on the taskbar and click Excel 2016 at the top of its result list.

Telling Cortana to Start Excel 2016 for you

      If you want Cortana, the voice-activated online Windows 10 assistant, to launch Excel 2016 for you, click the microphone icon in the Ask Me Anything text box and then when she displays the listening prompt, say “Cortana, start Microsoft Excel 2016.”

Starting Excel from the Windows 8 Start screen

      When starting Excel 2016 from the Windows 8 Start screen, you simply select the Excel 2016 program tile either by clicking it if you have a mouse available or tapping it with your finger or stylus if you’re running Windows 8 on a touchscreen device.

      If you can’t locate the Excel 2016 tile among those displayed on the Start screen, use the Search feature to find the application and pin it to the Windows 8 Start screen:

      1. From the Start screen, begin typing exc on your physical or Touch keyboard.

      Windows 8 displays Excel 2016 in the list of programs under Apps on the left side of the screen.

      2. Right-click the Excel 2016 button in the Apps list on the left side of the screen.

      On a touchscreen device, the equivalent to the right-click of the mouse is to tap and hold the Excel 2016 menu item until a circle appears around your finger or stylus. Then, when you remove your finger or stylus from the screen, the shortcut menu appears.

      3. Select the Pin to Start option from the menu bar that appears at the bottom of the screen.

      After pinning an Excel 2016 tile to the Windows 8 Start screen, you can move it by dragging and dropping it in your desired block.

Starting Excel from the Windows 7 Start menu

      When starting Excel 2016 from the Windows 7 Start menu, you follow these simple steps:

      1. Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar to open the Windows Start menu.

      To select the Start button on a device equipped with a mouse, you click the button. To select the Start button on a touchscreen device with no mouse or touchpad, you tap the button on the touchscreen.

      2. Choose All Programs from the Start menu, choose Microsoft Office 2016, and then choose Excel 2016.

      You can use the Search Programs and Files search box on the Windows 7 Start menu to locate Excel on your computer and launch the program in no time at all:

      1. Click the Start button СКАЧАТЬ