Introducing Excel
Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika, John Walkenbach · 2018
This chapter presents an introductory overview of Excel 2019. Excel is the world's most widely used spreadsheet software and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Excel may display additional Ribbon tabs based on what's selected or resulting from add-ins that are installed. In addition to the Ribbon, Excel features many shortcut menus, which user access by right clicking just about anything within Excel. Excel has quite a few commands that aren't available on the Ribbon. In most cases, the only way to access these commands is to add them to Quick Access toolbar. By default, the Quick Access toolbar contains four tools: AutoSave, Save, Undo, and Redo. Several Excel dialog boxes are “tabbed” dialog boxes; that is, they include notebook-like tabs, each of which is associated with a different panel. The task pane is similar to a dialog box except that the user can keep it visible as long as they like.