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498 Sharing Your Workbooks Online
Figure 4-3:
Editing my Excel workbook online in my web browser with the Excel web app.
6. When you’re finished editing the workbook, click the web browser’s Close button to save your changes. If you want to save a copy under
a new filename in the same folder on the SkyDrive, choose File➪Save As and then edit the filename that appears in the text box of the Save As dialog box before you click its Save button (or select the Overwrite Existing Files check box if you want to save the changes under the same filename).
The Excel web app is proficient at making simple editing, formatting, and layout changes to your spreadsheet data and charts using common com- mands on its Home, Insert, and even Chart Tools tabs (when a chart is selected). However, the web app does not support the editing of any type
of graphics object such as as comments, shapes that you draw, and other types of graphics that you’ve added. (Charts are about the only type of Excel graphic objects that the web app can handle.)
To make modifications to elements in your worksheet unsupported by the Excel web app, you have two choices. You can open the workbook in a local copy of Excel (assuming that the device you’re using has Excel 2010 or 2013 installed on it) by clicking the Edit in Excel command on the Edit Workbook tab that appears at the top of web app. Or you can download a copy of
the workbook to your local office computer (where you do have Excel