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If at any time when you are using Microsoft Excel you wish to save your work and quit, a simple and effective way of doing this is to press the close or “X” button at the top right hand corner of the program screen. When this is pressed Excel will automatically ask whether or not you wish to save your progress – simply select “Yes” to save your work and close Excel

You can also save your work without shutting Excel entirely, which is useful for saving your work as you go along.  To do this, click the Microsoft Office Button at the top left of your screen and select the “Save” or Save As” option.

The “Save” option will save any updates you have made to the current workbook in the location where it is already saved. If you have not saved the workbook somewhere already, Excel will ask you to give it a name and ask you where you want to save it (e.g. on your Desktop, or in My Documents). After you’ve given your workbook a name and a location once, pressing the “Save” button again will simply save the changes to the same file. A quick way of doing this is to press “Ctrl” & “S” keys together.

If you chose to “Save As”, you will be able to save a copy of the file in a different location with a new name, without overwriting the original. Only use “Save As” if you want to save a copy of the file with another name (for instance if you want to make a backup of the file in its current state before you make changes to it). If you just need to save the changes to the same file, use “Save” to avoid ending up with multiple copies!

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