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2 Ways How To Close Active Excel Workbook Window | Exceltip2day Blog


Hello there.

I'm Michael Leng. Today, in my blog "Exceltip2day", I'm going to talk about how to close your "Active Excel Workbook" with the shortcut key.

"ALT" + "F4"

Tip Quiz

What is the shortcut to select the current region around the active cells?


How do you usually close your Excel workbook window?

What is your answer?

👉 1st method: Close by clicking the default 'Close' button.


The answer is to click the 'Close' button the small square upper-right corner of the 'Excel Title Bar' immediate above the 'Close Window' button of Excel 'Menu Bar' as the figure shown above.

All right, that is a common way that the most Excel users do it.

However, there is another alternative for closing the Excel office by using letter keys on a keyboard. The two keys are ‘Alt’ and ‘F4’, which they are to use as the shortcut way closing the Excel window.

How to close an Excel workbook, Closing an active Excel workbook with its common way and with keyboard shortcut


👉 2nd method: Close by pressing the ALT and F4.


 Here is the hint on how to perform the shortcut:

  • Press the “Alt” key and hold down.
  • To press the “F4” button while still keep holding the “Alt” key.
  • Release both keys.

Shortcut to close the "Active Excel Workbook Window" immediately.

Windows shortcut 


ALTF4


 Notify:

The both Excel closing methods, clicking on ‘Close Window’ button and pressing the ‘Alt’ + ‘F4’ key buttons, will close the only current opened Excel window, the whole workbook will be closed.

If there is more than one of Excel window still open. The only particular active window will be closed.

Additional:

This will help you to save time for closing the workbook window you have been working on it as a whole.

You can apply to use for another program like Word, Blog, PowerPoint, etc. too.

Be sure, you will have to save your workbook file prior press "Alt + F4" or otherwise you will lose every data that you have just updated onto your Excel workbook.

Do not be confused between "Alt + F4" and "Ctrl + F4". They are different. Think twice before if you are going to use one of them.

That brings me to the end of my posting.

Tip Answer

 a. It's  "[Ctrl] [Shift] [*]".

 b. It's "[Ctrl] [Shift] [F4]".

 c. It's "[ALT] [Shift] [*]".



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Does it help?

Hope our tip we have shared with you today will help you to use Excel with more ease.

Thanks for reading.

Bye,

Posted by: Michael Leng



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  1. Krishna OptifFebruary 14, 2020 at 7:51 PM

    Your blog is very nice and provide me informative content thanks for sharing for more information about Open Close Workbook

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