Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel, 3rd Edition

Appendix 2

AN INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT^® OFFICE

This appendix provides an introduction to Microsoft^® Office to show the differences in the menus and commands. This appendix provides an overview and some screenshots of the menu ribbon at the top of the screen. There is also a function reference on the disk (MFMaths3e_Menus).

Microsoft^® Office user interface overview

The whole Office interface was redesigned initially in Excel 2007 and amended in later editions to contain more features and new file formats. Microsoft explains that most Office users accessed around 10 per cent of the functions on the many toolbars and menus in previous versions of the applications, because most of the programs’ features were buried in layers of menus and submenus. ...