Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Menus

All of Excel's commands are accessible through its menus. Excel has two types of menus:

• Standard menus appear on the menu bar at the top of the screen. Figures 6 and 7 show examples of standard Excel menus.

  Figure 6. The Edit menu.

  

  Figure 7. The Toolbars menu under the View menu.

  

• Shortcut menus appear at the mouse pointer. Figure 10 on the next page shows an example of a shortcut menu.

Here are some rules to keep in mind when working with menus:

• A menu command that appears in gray (Figure 6) cannot be selected.

• A menu command followed by an ellipsis ...