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The next area on the screen is called the menu bar. The menu bar contains words such as file, edit, view and insert. Each word represents a list of commands that can be executed in the program. To drop down the list, simply click on the word that contains the item you're looking for. For instance, if I click on the word file, a list of the commands associated with that menu appears underneath. As I move my pointer throughout this area, different commands will become highlighted. If a command has a little triangle next to it, a submenu may appear, from which you can then select. For instance if I wanted to close the workbook, I would move to the close command on the menu and click my mouse once. This will close the middle area of the screen where your workbook used to be. To open a new workbook then, I'd return to the file menu, clicking once to expand the list of commands and then select the 'new' command from that menu. This will open a dialogue box. Many commands open these kinds of boxes on your screen. This dialogue box allows you to select from different types of workbooks to open. I want to open a blank workbook. So I'm simply going to double click on the workbook icon. This once again, opens a new book on the screen. And this time up in my title bar it's named Book2, since it's the second workbook I've opened without saving. The menus in Excel 2000 are referred to as morphing menus. When I click on the view menu, at first we can only see a few commands, until I move my pointer down to the very bottom onto the double arrows. This expands the menu to show us many commands that were at first hidden. You can also change the menu simply by resting on that menu for a long period of time. Excel then figures that you're searching for something that its not showing to you at any given time, and expands to show you those hidden menu commands. Once you have utilised one of the hidden commands it then becomes a part of the commands that show to you by default, in that menu. For instance, when I first click on the view command, the status bar does not appear, until I go to the bottom to allow status bar to show. Now I'm going to execute that command which will remove the status bar from the bottom of my screen. You'll notice, one of the bars is now missing from the lower part of your screen. To bring the status bar back, I click on the view menu and status bar is now one of the default menu items shown to me. I'll select it again to make the status bar once again appear at the bottom of the screen. To the far right of the menu bar are three more control buttons. The 'x' would close the workbook, just as the close command in the file menu did. The middle button called restore will shrink down the size of the workbook. It is now a window that floats in the middle of the screen. You can move the window by clicking and dragging in the title bar. The last of the three buttons is called minimize, and this will take the whole workbook down to the bottom of the screen. Now Book2 appears as just a small title bar in the lower left corner. To bring the workbook back on screen, I can click the restore button and it comes up as a floating window again, or the maximize button to make it take up the rest of the window area. lick the restore button and it comes up as a floating window again, or the maximize button to make it take up the rest of the window area.