Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

Chapter 3. The Mini Toolbar and Other U.I. Improvements

In this chapter

Using the Mini Toolbar to Format Selected Text 54

Expanding the Formula Bar 58

Zooming In and Out on a Worksheet 59

Using the Status Bar to Add Numbers 60

Switching Between Normal View, Page Break Preview, and Page Layout View Modes 61

Using the New Sheet Icon to Add Worksheets 63

Although the ribbon and Quick Access toolbar are likely to be the most talked-about features in the new Excel interface, several other features are worth mentioning:

• Mini toolbar—The mini toolbar appears whenever you select text. Although this may happen rarely when you’re editing cells in Excel, it does happen frequently when you are working with charts, text boxes, and so on. The Mini toolbar ...