Topic: Closing a Workbook Introduction. When you are finished working in a workbook, you should close it. You can close workbooks without exiting Excel. If you choose to close a workbook before you save it, a dialog box asks you if you want to save the changes you made to the workbook. The Close command appears on the File menu. This tutorial always directs you to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-F4 to close a workbook. Exercise Objective. In this exercise, you will close the Expenses.xls workbook without exiting Excel. Exercise: Closing a Workbook Without Exiting Excel Complete the following two steps to close Expenses.xls without exiting Excel. Step 1: Press Insert-T to verify Expenses.xls is the active Excel workbook. JAWS announces, "Title Equals Microsoft Excel - Expenses.xls." Step 2: Press Ctrl-F4 to close the workbook. JAWS announces, "Close Document Window Microsoft Excel." If you made changes to Expenses.xls since the last time you saved it, a dialog box prompts you to save the workbook before closing it. Because you saved this workbook in the previous exercise, the dialog box should not appear. If a dialog box appears, press N to activate the No button. JAWS announces, "Microsoft Excel." Once you close Expenses.xls, no workbook appears in the document window. Microsoft Excel is still the active program. What You Learned. In this topic, you learned: You should close workbooks when you have finished working in them. You can close workbooks without exiting Excel. If you choose to close a workbook before you save it, a dialog box asks you if you want to save the changes you have made to the workbook. The keyboard shortcut to close a workbook is Ctrl-F4. ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************