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Use Save or Save As

Use Save or Save As

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Use Save or Save As

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- After doing a certain amount of work with a worksheet if it's a new one, you certainly want to save it. And at different times when you work with much larger worksheets, you certainly want to save periodically. And most people familiar with computer software develop a certain habit, a cycle of say it's every five minutes or so and the more changes you make to a given worksheet in Excel the more likely you are to want to save more frequently. And all of us at one time or another has gotten burned by the fact that either there was a power failure or perhaps we turned off the computer by mistake and we lost all the changes we made from the last save. Now, the question comes up when you go to the file tab in the ribbon. Remember, this is the one that's different than all the other tabs at the top of the screen. When you click file, we do see save, but there's also a save as. The question sometimes comes up, well which one…

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