The action bar appears across the bottom of the InfoCenter, providing access to commands that perform a variety of tasks. Click a command to select it.
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Commonly used commands appear directly on the action bar. Pop-up menus display lists of additional commands. A menu appears when you click the menu name on the action bar. To close a pop-up menu without selecting a command, click anywhere outside that menu.
While you work, the commands displayed on the action bar and in the pop-up menus may change to reflect your current activity. When commands are not available, they are dimmed. For example, if you previously clicked Cut or Copy, Paste is available; otherwise Paste is dimmed.
Commands can apply either to selected data or to new data, if nothing is selected when you click the command. For example, you can center data you have already entered by selecting the cell that contains the data, clicking Alignment, and clicking the Center alignment option. Alternatively, you can click Alignment, click Center, and then click the cell and begin entering the data; the data you enter is centered as you enter it.
Different commands can have different behaviors; for example: