For several years now I have used Excel 2010 as part of the home & student version of MS Office. A week or so ago I finally gave in to the prompting that support for 2010 would soon expire, and bought the current version. But I'm struggling to make it work as seamlessly as my old version did:
- 1. First, I don't seem to be able to create separate shortcuts on my desktop for each of the MS Office components -- particularly Excel and Word which I use most.
2. When I open MS Office from the symbol that's on my taskbar, and then click on the Excel symbol, it doesn't open a spreadsheet but simply gives me a list of recently used files (only one at the moment), with no way I can see of opening other Excel files. Only when I select one of the files in the recent list do I then see the normal spreadsheet presentation with the 'File' menu option at the top so I can open other Excel files stored on my PC.
3. When I'm using a file I can see no way to close it without shutting down Excel, which means I have to re-start Excel to then use another file.
Any ideas please on how to make my new Excel, and the rest of Office, behave like my 2010 version?
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