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Shortcut menus and the Mini toolbar - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel 2013 Essential Training
Shortcut menus and the Mini toolbar
In Excel, the Right Mouse button always means "shortcut menu". It's a great feature because it alerts you to some of the commands and features you'd like to be able to use, and I say that based on the idea that Microsoft has done a lot of research about how people use Excel. The Excel Ribbon menu system which is quite extensive, can certainly be intimidating, and particularly, if you think of all the many, many buttons and choices that are available there. Suppose you want to make a formatting change in this worksheet and you click on cell A4, hold down the Left Mouse button and drag across the next three cells. Now, you'd like to make some formatting changes. You're not quite sure where to find them, so let's right-click here. Now, this doesn't mean that what we're seeing is every possible command available--by no means at all. What we're really seeing here are some potential choices that we're likely we want to get to. Not only do we see this pop-up menu above it, we see a feature…
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What is Excel used for?1m 49s
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Using the menu system4m 30s
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The Quick Access Toolbar4m 41s
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The structure of a worksheet or workbook3m 41s
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Using the Formula bar1m 43s
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Using the Status bar2m 24s
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Navigation and mouse pointers2m 20s
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Shortcut menus and the Mini toolbar3m 24s
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Using the built-in help2m 54s
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Creating new files2m 11s
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