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Launching and Quitting Excel 39
To do this, drag the Microsoft Excel 2013 icon that you’ve either pinned to the Windows Start menu (see “Pinning Excel to the Windows 7 Start menu,” which immediately precedes this section) or that you’ve added as a shortcut to the Windows desktop and drag and drop it into its desired position on the Windows 7 taskbar.
After you pin a Microsoft Excel 2013 icon to the Windows 7 taskbar, the button appears on the Windows taskbar each time you start your computer, and you can launch the Excel program simply by single-clicking its Quick Launch button.
When it’s quitting time
When you’re ready to call it a day and quit Excel, you have several choices for shutting down the program:
✦ Press Alt+FX or Alt+F4 on your physical or Touch keyboard.
✦ Select the Close button (the one with the x) in the upper-right corner of
the Excel program window.
✦ Click the Excel program button (the green one with the x on a partially opened book to the immediate left of the Save button on the Quick Access toolbar) followed by the Close option on its drop-down menu.
If you try to exit Excel after working on a workbook and you haven’t saved your latest changes, the program beeps at you and displays an alert box que- rying whether you want to save your changes. To save your changes before exiting, click the Yes command button. (For detailed information on saving documents, see Book I, Chapter 2.) If you’ve just been playing around in the worksheet and don’t want to save your changes, you can abandon the docu- ment by clicking the No button.
Quitting Excel 2013 on a touchscreen device
Book I Chapter 1
If you’re running Excel 2013 on a touchscreen device without a physical keyboard (even one with a relatively large screen such as my 10-inch Acer Iconia tablet), for heaven’s sake, don’t forget to engage the touch mode on the Quick Launch toolbar as described earlier in this chapter. Turning on Ttouch mode
sufficiently separates the Close button in the very upper-right corner of the Excel screen from the Restore Down button to its immediate left, so that when you tap the Close button, you end up actually exiting Excel rather than just shrinking the Excel program window on the Windows desktop!
The Excel 2013 User Experience