Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Quitting Excel

When you're finished using Excel, you should use the Quit Excel command to close the application. This completely clears Excel out of RAM, freeing up RAM for other applications.

Tips

• Closing all document windows is not the same as quitting. The only way to remove Excel from RAM is to quit. I tell you about closing document windows in Chapter 4.

• Quitting Excel also instructs Excel to save preference settings.

To quit Excel

Choose Excel > Quit Excel (Figure 8) or press . Here's what happens:

Figure 8. The Excel menu.

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