they are organised into toolbars, which in turn contain icons with different tools
Just like any Microsoft compliant application, the Title Bar in MS Excel displays the Application Name and the current Filename of the Worsheet, this can be found o the left most portion of the bar.By double-clicking on the Title-Bar, it switches its window Maximize to Restore Mode and vice-versa.You could also move the active window by click-dragging it on the Title Bar when in Restore Mode.Performing a Right-Mouse click on the Title Bar would also show the a Short cut menu for Restoring, Minimizing, Maximizing, etc the active Window
Excel 2007 does not have menus, but has what are known as ribbons. The various options are grouped and displayed on different ribbons. Options that would have been in menus and toolbars are displayed on the ribbons.
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You may be referring to the Fill Handle, but there are many ways that you can copy formulas in Excel. You can do it through the menus, with the mouse, with the keyboard, with the shorcut menus, with function keys and with combinations of these options. With the keyboard alone, there are various ways you can copy formulas.
Both have File, Edit, Format, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Window and Help menus. Word has also got a Table menu, which Excel doesn't. Excel has a Data menu, which Word doesn't. On the menus they both have a lot of options are the same, but some options are quite different. For example Word's Insert menu won't have options like Cells, Rows and Columns that Excel will have, but will have options like Autotext, Reference and Field, that Excel won't have. As the two applications are for different jobs, they are naturally going to have different options. Some things will be common, like options to open, close and save files, or to cut, copy and paste things. Options on the Tools and Format menus in each application are going to be different because they are for different tasks. The same applies to other applications which will have a lot of the same menus and options and also have menus and options that are specific to those applications.
You will see a blank worksheet entitled Book1 when you open Excel. Depending on the version, you will see other things such as a ribbon or menus.
Copy and paste does work in Excel. There are in fact many ways of copying and pasting in Excel, using the mouse, menus or keyboard. You may have a specific problem, so it may depend on what you are copying and how you are doing it.
To display the document panel in Microsoft Excel click the Menus tab, then click the file drop down menu, and there you will find the View Document Properties link.
The F10 key in Excel activates the menus. It does the same as pressing the Alt key by itself. In older versions of Excel, up to Excel 2003, menus were used and the Alt or F10 key activated the menu bar. They both work in versions of Excel from 2007 onwards to activate key tips, so that you can use keyboard combinations for certain activities that would have been on the menus on older versions. You can also use F10 with other keys. SHIFT+F10 displays the shortcut menu for a selected item. ALT+SHIFT+F10 displays the menu or message for an Error Checking button. CTRL+F10 maximizes or restores the selected workbook window.
Yes, they are organised into categories in the functions Library group, which is on the ribbon's Formulas tab.
Broadly speaking, yes it would. It would have all the standard window options and then have menus and toolbars etc. What is in those menus and toolbars would differ and there would be some menus that do not exist in other applications. One nice thing about using Windows applications is that as much as possible things look the same and have similar layouts and ways of doing things. In that way, Excel is similar to the other Microsoft Office programs.
They probably were turned off for some unknown reason. If by shortcut menus, you mean, "Mini Toolbar" in Excel 2007, you do the following to display the Mini Toolbar:Click on the MS Office symbol (circle in top left corner).Click on Excel Options (bottom, toward the right side).Click on Popular (top of left-side menu).Click in the box to place a checkmark in front of "Show Mini Toolbar on selection."Click OK.