
Close Excel 2010, and the button on the Excel 2013 QAT has changed to the Open (Ctrl + O) button.If you point to that icon in Excel 2010, the screen tip will say “Open (Ctrl + O)”.In Excel 2010, add the standard Open button on the QAT.Keep Excel 2013 open, and open Excel 2010.In Excel 2013, if you have an Open icon on the QAT, remove it.Click the Save category, and click “Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files”īefore Chewing all pointing out this setting, I was using this clunky workaround, to get the functionality back.Click the File tab, and then click Options.Thanks, Chewing all, for pointing out this setting, in the comments below. I don’t know why that changed in Excel 2013, but if you still have Excel 2010 installed, you can change a setting, to avoid the Backstage view. In older versions of Excel, if you click on the Open icon, it opens the browsing window, where you can pick a file, and open it. That’s quite a few clicks, just to see a list of your files! If you want to see files that aren’t listed in the Recent list, you can click Computer, then click the Browse button, to open the window. If you point to that icon, after adding it to the QAT, the screen tip says “Open”.Ĭlick that icon, and it also takes you to the Backstage view, just like the File tab does. You can also add an Open icon to your Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

Here is the Backstage view, with Open and Recent Workbooks selected The Open command is selected, and you can select a file and open it. In Excel 2013, if you click the File tab, you go to the Backstage view.
