Secrets of the Menu Bar
If you've used other Mac applications, you probably know how to use the menu bar:
- If the application for which you want to issue a command isn't active, click one of the application's windows to make it active. Mac OS X then displays the application's menus on the menu bar. For example, when Excel is active, you see its menus, with Excel's own menu appearing at the left end of the menu bar.
- Click the menu you want to open.
- Click the command you want to give. Or, if the command is on a submenu, click or highlight the submenu item to display the submenu, then click the item.
NOTE: An ellipsis (…) at the end of a menu command's name usually indicates that the command displays a dialog box rather than taking an action. For example, the Close command on the File menu closes the active document, while the Save As… command displays the Save As dialog box. (The Save command also displays the Save As dialog box—but only if you've never saved this workbook before.) But with the move to the Ribbon, some menu commands with ellipses display the tab of the Ribbon that contains the command you need to complete the action.
Giving a command via the menu bar could hardly be easier. But the menu bar also has two secrets. You can:
- Close all open workbooks at once. Hold down Shift and click the File menu, then click the Close All command that replaces the regular Close command. If any of the workbooks contains unsaved changes, Excel prompts you to save them, just like when you close a single workbook.
- Customize the menus and menu bar. You can customize the menus and menu bar to put the commands you need where you find them most useful. See the section “Customizing the Menus and the Menu Bar” in Chapter 2 for details.
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