Part I: Getting Started with Excel
Using Shortcut Menus
In addition to the Ribbon, Excel features many shortcut menus, which you access by right-
clicking just about anything within Excel. Shortcut menus don’t contain every relevant
command, just those that are most commonly used for whatever is selected.As an example, Figure 1.9 shows the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a cell
in a table. The shortcut menu appears at the mouse-pointer position, which makes select-
ing a command fast and efficient. The shortcut menu that appears depends on what you’re
doing at the time. For example, if you’re working with a chart, the shortcut menu contains
commands that are pertinent to the selected chart element.FIGURE 1.9
Right-click to display a shortcut menu of commands you’re most likely to use.