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Working with Imperial Linear Distances
Incomplete and Corrupt Sorting
Quickly Removing a Toolbar Button
Deriving High and Low Non-Zero Values
Counting Cells with Specific Characters
If you pull down the File menu, you may notice a list of files at the bottom of the menu. These files represent the most recently used (MRU) Excel spreadsheets. This file list provides a quick way for you to access your files. Some people don't like the file list, however. Either they never use it, or they feel it complicates the File menu too much. If you are one of those people, you can disable the file list feature of Excel. This is done by following these steps:
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