Touring the interface

Excel screens can look kind of intimidating, especially if you're a new user.…So I want to give you little tour of what's happening here, make things a…little easier for you.…Let's start near the top. First thing, most obvious thing is this giant toolbar…and that's called the Ribbon bar.…And instead of having drop-down menus and multiple rows of toolbars, like a…typical program or like Excel had a couple versions ago, we have these tabs,…kind of like a tabbed dialog box.…And you can click any of these and see different sections of the Ribbon bar.…Now this tab over here on the left labeled File, that's kind of special.…

Click the File tab, and this is what's called backstage view.…Backstage view doesn't deal with the content of your workbook. This deals with…the files themselves, the workbook as a whole, things like saving, opening,…closing, printing, and so on.…Now the keyboard shortcuts are the same as in other versions of Excel and just…about every other program.…So for example, you can press Ctrl+S to Save, you can press Ctrl+Open, you can…