Office 2007 Tutorial - The 10 New Office 2007 Screen Elements That You Must Know

1. Office Button

It is that large, round control in the upper-left corner of some of Office 2007 applications. It offers basics such as New, Open, and Save commands, along with some newcomers, like Prepare and Publish.

2. Ribbon

The bar across the top of the window that contains tabbed pages of commands and icons. The ribbon consists of:
• Tab such as Home, Insert, etc. Every tab contains several groups and every group has its own command icons.
• Group: A section of a tab. For example, the Home tab has the following groups: Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, and Editing.
• Dialog box launcher: A small icon in the bottom-right corner of a group, from which you can open a dialog box related to that group.

3. Tabs and contextual tabs

Each tab corresponds to a task. For example, in Word, the Home tab contains the most commonly used writing tools, such as the font formatting options and style options.

The contextual tabs will appear depending on what you're working on. For example, if you insert a chart in Excel, the Chart Tools tab will appear, with Design, Layout, and Format subtabs.

4. The Quick Access Toolbar

It is located right beside the Office Button. By default it contains 3 buttons but you can customize the toolbar to include other buttons.

5. Mini Toolbar

The Mini toolbar is a set of formatting tools that appears when you first select text. It is not context sensitive and always contains the identical set of formatting tools.

6. Galleries

A gallery is a set of thumbnail graphics that represent a set of formatting options that you can apply to various elements in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access 2007. Examples include table styles, chart styles, and PowerPoint themes.

7. Live Preview

It is a feature that works together with the styles in a gallery to let you preview the results of formatting choices. So you can flit from one choice to another and try on the various sets of formatting without committing to anything until you're ready.

8. KeyTips

KeyTips designed to serve as keyboard accelerators to access various items on the Ribbon. Just press the ALT key and then you press the appropriate additional keys as indicated by the KeyTips labels.

9. Enhanced ScreenTips

It gives some explanations on the icons in the Ribbon as well as the keyboard shortcut for the particular icon. Just move the mouse pointer over icons and you'll see it.

10. Status Bar

The bar display at the bottom of the document screen. The bar offers options such as a Zoom slider for magnification and view options (Print Layout, Outline, Draft, etc.).

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From Wong Hing.