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David Slager, Essential Excel 2016, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2161-7_6

6. Understanding Backstage

David Slager

(1)Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

The File tab, unlike the other tabs, doesn’t bring up a series of groups with buttons on them; rather, it brings up what is called the Backstage. This area is called the Backstage because the options on the Backstage are things that are handled behind the scenes from the workbook such as handling files, printing, sharing and exporting workbooks, account information, and selecting the options that change how Excel works. It also displays information about the workbook.

After reading and working through this chapter you should be able to

  • Save a workbook in different formats

  • Add and edit information about ...

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