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Working with the Excel Environment

The Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar are where you will find the commands to
perform common tasks in Excel. The Backstage view gives you various options

for saving, opening, printing and sharing your document.
Ribbon

The ribbon is the strip of buttons and icons located above the work area that
was first introduced in Excel 2007. The ribbon replaces the menus and toolbars

found in earlier versions of Excel.

Above the ribbon are a number of tabs, such as Home, Insert and Page Layout.
Clicking on a tab you can see a number of groups that display the commands

located in this section of the ribbon.

For example, when Excel opens, the commands under the Home tab are
displayed. These commands are grouped according to their functions—such as
the Clipboard group which includes the cut, copy and paste commands and the

Font group which includes the current font, font size, italic and underline

commands.
Each tab will have one or more groups.

Some groups will have a drop-down arrow you can click for

more options.

Click a tab to see more commands.

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