Many Microsoft products use this as a standard behavior.
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
They show you keys that you can use to activate those menus and items on menus. Pressing and holding the Alt key and then the F key will open the file menu. Pressing X then, would select the Exit option and close Excel. Alt activates the menu bar. You can use these keys to do things quickly. Alt - E - C is Alt, Edit menu, Copy option. So the underlined letter is the letter you type to select that particular option.
The two of them alone don't do anything. Alt will activate the menu bar, which you could then open a particular menu with by hitting the underlined letter of the menu in question. If you hit Alt and Shift together, the only thing that will happen is the menubar being activated, and that is purely because of the Alt. The Shift has no effect.
In Opera 10.51, the Tools menu is located in the menu bar at the top of the browser window. You can access it by clicking on "Tools," which will drop down a list of options such as preferences, extensions, and settings. If the menu bar is hidden, you can enable it by pressing the "Alt" key or by using the "Menu" button.
You can use the ALT key to open your Menu Bar in any software.
The Toolbar is displayed under the menu bar.
if on internet Explorerthe menu bar
The Toolbar
To show the menu bar temporarily in Internet Explorer just press the Alt key.To display the menu bar permanently (in Internet Explorer 8):Click the Tools button on the Command Bar to open the Tools menu.Open the Toolbars submenu and click Menu Bar.To display the menu bar permanently (in Internet Explorer 9):Press the Alt key to display the Menu Bar.In the Menu Bar open the View menu.Open the Toolbars submenu and click Menu bar.
It activates the menus and the facility to use the keyboard shortcuts for options, like pressing Alt - F - S to save a file or Alt - F - X to exit Excel. In both examples, Alt - F is activating the File menu.
To enable the menu bar without directly accessing it, you can use keyboard shortcuts. For example, on Windows, you can press the "Alt" key to temporarily show the menu bar in many applications. Alternatively, you can access application settings or preferences using keyboard shortcuts or by right-clicking on the application title bar to enable the menu bar option.
Im guessing that would be the taskbar