Closing a Workbook Window

After finishing your work in worksheet you need to close this workbook.

We prefer before closing a Excel workbook don’t forgot to save your work.

If you not do this and make some changes since last saved then before closing a workbook Excel displays an alert box asking whether you want to save your work before closing.

To close a Workbook: Follow these Steps

1) Click the File menu and choose Close. Shortcut Key for close a workbook is

(Ctrl + W.)

Alternative method for closing a workbook Click the closed button on the right edge.

If the workbook closed it means no changes have been made the work book since it was saved last.

2) If you have made some changes to the workbook since the last save and forget to save it. The alert dialog box appears. In the alert dialog box Excel asked to you that, do you want to save changes you made since after last saved.

The alert dialog box gives you three choices. The choices are following.

1) Yes: - If you click on yes button excel save all your work in the existing Workbook

Note: - In some version of excel you look after clicking yes a save as dialog box appears, now you can saved your file as a different name or overwrite the existing file.

2) No: - If you click on No button Excel ignore all of your changes since last saved and close the work book

3) Cancel: - If you click on cancel button Excel cancel the closed command.

Note: - You can used the cancel button if you think forget to save your work and little confused that you do the correct thing or not

You must be followed our following posts because all of those posts are related to each other.

1) Getting started with Excel.

1) Creating a Workbook

2) Saving a workbook.

3) Open a workbook.