Creating Opening and Closing Workbook
A Microsoft Excel workbook is a file as well as a container of one or more worksheets, which is the actual working area of the user, in which they can do a various type of mathematical, logical, statistical and more types of jobs. A workbook can be created by many ways.
Create a New Workbook from Start Menu
After booting your PC, you want to create a new workbook in Excel 2013. What will you do? Here are the following steps.
To create a new workbook, click on Start button.
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Then click Excel 2013. The following window will appear. Click on Blank Workbook. A blank workbook with at least worksheet will be created.
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Create a new, blank workbook from Excel 2013
Suppose you are already working with a workbook and now you need to create a new blank workbook. In this situation click the File tab. The Backstage view will appear.
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Click New tab then click Blank workbook. A new workbook with a sheet will appear.
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The keyboard shortcut to create a new, blank workbook is press CTRL+N.
Open an existing workbook
If you want to open a previously saved workbook follow the steps below. Click on the File tab. the following Backstage view will appear.
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You can choose from recent workbooks otherwise click on Computer and choose any drive or you can choose OneDrive to choose your files. See the following picture.
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Also, you can browse to select the files. See the following picture.
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Create a new Template
Click File tab then click on New. The following window will appear.
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Choose any of the Template. Suppose the following. After installing click on Create and the Template will appear.
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To pin a Workbook
If you required a particular workbook frequently, you can pin it to Backstage view for quick access.
Navigate to Backstage view and then click Open. The recently modified workbooks will appear.
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Hover the mouse over the workbook you wish to pin. A pushpin icon will appear next to the workbook. Click the pushpin icon.
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The workbook will stay in Recent Workbooks. To unpin a workbook, simply click the pushpin icon again.
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You can also pin the folder in the same way.
Close a Workbook
To close an Excel workbook, click the File tab then click close.
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