Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Step by Step

Chapter 1. What’s New in Excel 2007?

One of the first things you’ll notice about Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 is that the user interface has changed quite a bit. Earlier versions of Office Excel 2007 housed the program’s more than 1,000 commands in a series of menus, toolbars, task panes, and dialog boxes. And, as it turns out, there were some functions that didn’t appear by default on any of the menus or toolbars. In Excel 2007, there is only one place to look for the tools you need to use it: the user interface Ribbon at the top of the program window. The Microsoft Excel 2007 product team took the dozens of menus and toolbars and reorganized their contents onto the Ribbon tabs and galleries. If you’ve used Excel before, you’ll need to spend ...