![]() When I click out of my chart, the contextual tab disappears…look! the green highlighted tab isn’t there… When I click out of my chart, and back into my spreadsheet, the contextual tab disappears. In the above screenshot, I’ve put a chart into my document, and you can see a green highlighted tab – this is the contextual tab which I can use to amend my chart. The green tab is a contextual tab, that appears when I’m working with my chart. ![]() ![]() To get them back, you click on the object, and the tab appears again. The contextual tabs give you the options and tools you need to work with these objects and then when you click out of the object the tools are tidied away. And no, Excel doesn’t hide them to induce Excel-panic, it is actually being pretty smart.Ĭontextual tabs appear when you are creating or editing an object like a chart, or table or even a diagram in Excel. When I clicked out of my chart, the tools would disappear…What is going on Excel? Why are you doing that? How do I get them back? (Mild panic followed…”have I broken it?”)įortunately, my calm and understanding trainer explained that these disappearing tools are called contextual tabs. I was on an Excel Intermediate course last week, and I noticed that when I was working with a chart, specific tools appeared.
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