6 ways to open an Excel workbook

Excel 365
The Open dialog box, is your key to finding and retrieving Excel workbooks.

To display the Open dialog box, perform any of the following actions within Excel:

  • On the File tab, click Open:
Open in Excel 2016
  • Click the Open Open  button on the Quick Access Toolbar (if this button was visible).

    How to add this button in the Quick Access Toolbar, see Adding commands to the Quick Access Toolbar.

  • Click a document's link in the Getting Started task pane.
  • Press Ctrl+O.
  • Press Ctrl+F12.
  • Press Alt+Ctrl+F2.

See more Opening workbooks automatically.

See also this tip in French: 6 façons d’ouvrir un classeur Excel.

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6 ways to open an Excel workbook

6 ways to open an Excel workbook

The Open dialog box, is your key to finding and retrieving Excel workbooks.
6 ways to open an Excel workbook

6 ways to open an Excel workbook

The Open dialog box is your key to finding and retrieving Excel workbooks.
Changing a comment shape

Changing a comment shape

The kind of comments that users of earlier versions of Excel used to work in Excel for Microsoft 365 are called notes. You cannot change the shape of comments because all comments are displayed in the separate pane with threads or on the Comments pane (see How to hide/show note and comment indicators for more details).