Using the Ribbon

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, and some parts of Outlook, use the Ribbon and its different tabs instead of the standard menu structure to access the programs’ commands and features. With the Ribbon, you can switch among the task-oriented tabs and see all the available options. Additionally, many items provide a live preview: You point to something on the Ribbon—a style or a font, for example—and see immediately how it affects the content of your document.

Explore the Ribbon

  1. Open one of the programs that uses the Ribbon.

  2. If you see the command tabs but no commands, click a command tab to display the Ribbon temporarily. ...

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