Excel Shortcut - Close Workbook

August 29, 2017 - by Bill Jelen

Here is a quick way to close the active workbook in Excel. You won't close Excel. Just the active workbook.

If you have one workbook open and you click the “X” in the top right corner, you will close Excel. Ctrl + W will close that workbook but leave Excel open.

Thanks to Dave Marriott for sending in this idea.

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Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast
episode 2141 closing a workbook but
leaving Excel open you know hey if you
come up here this X and there's only one
workbook open that might close the
workbook and close Excel if you want to
close just one workbooks I'll press ctrl
n alright do some stuff here and I don't
want to make any changes to this I just
want to close it so ctrl W will close
that workbook but not close Excel cool
trick we'll see you next time for
another NetCast from MrExcel

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