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Using Save or Save As

Using Save or Save As - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Using Save or Save As

If this is a brand-new workbook, the name at the top of the screen is likely to be Book1, Book2 something like that. We do need to save our work from time to time. Keep in mind that the entries you might have made here, although they are being stored in RAM--that's working memory--they're really not being stored permanently and you certainly do want to save this information as a file; but the question will surely come up as you click the File Tab in the ribbon, "Should I do a Save or Save As, what's the difference"? Save As is always safer, it's a bit longer. It does give you a choice as to where you will save the file, what name you will give it, and whether you need to save it in a different format. Now, you might want to save it on the SkyDrive if you're using that capability; you might want to save it on this computer; and your computer right now might have your Flash drive plugged into it. Let's go to Browse here. Maybe in my case here, I simply want to save this file--which was…

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