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What’s up with the SkyDrive?
You’ve undoubtedly heard of the cloud (some- times called the “almighty Cloud”), but your understanding of it may yet be as nebulous as its name. SkyDrive is the descriptive name that Microsoft has given the space in the cloud that it lends to its Windows Live users. The great thing about saving a workbook file in a folder on your SkyDrive is that you then can open it for further editing and printing from any device running Excel 2013 that has Internet access.
For example, if you save a workbook file that you create in Excel on your office desktop com- puter, you can then open it for more editing on your laptop at home or even your Windows tablet or smartphone at the local coffee shop. For more information on SkyDrive and to set it up on your computer, open the Excel Save As screen and click the Learn More link under Get SkyDrive for Windows and Take Your Files with You Anywhere.
To save the file locally instead — on your computer’s hard drive or a virtual drive on your company’s local area network — select the Computer button under your SkyDrive designation.
When you select Computer, the right pane of the Save As screen then displays a list of Recent Folders where you’ve recently saved Excel work- book files as well as any mapped network drives and your device’s local Documents folder and Desktop. When you use this list to select the folder into which you want to save the new workbook, Excel opens the Save As dialog box with the current contents of this folder displayed.
If none of the folders listed in the Computer pane of the Save As screen are where you want to save the workbook, go ahead and select the Browse button to open the Save As dialog box with the default location for saving workbook files from which you can select the drive and folder where the new workbook should be stored.
After you select the place where you want to save the new workbook, Excel opens the Save As dialog box similar to the one shown in Figure 1-17. Use this dialog box to replace the temporary document name (Book1, Book2, and so forth) with a more descriptive filename in the File Name text box; to select a new file format from the Save As Type drop-down list box; and, if necessary, to select a new folder where it’s to be stored before you save the workbook.
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