Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Office 2007 All in One

Introduction

Microsoft Corporation’s Office products have an installed base of more than 25 million licensed users. More than 90% of the Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Office. Microsoft completely redesigned the Office interface when it produced Office 2007. Microsoft’s goal was to make the Office 2007 interface easier than ever to use, as well as more integrated among other applications and the Internet.

By redesigning the interface, Microsoft in effect did away with menus and toolbars and replaced the interface with an ever-changing ribbon across the top of the Office product screens. To many Office old-timers, the ribbon was a bold move—Microsoft did away with the interface we’ve been using for what seems like forever. At first, the ...