Easy Microsoft® Excel® 2010

Chapter 1. Working with the Excel User Interface

The Ribbon User Interface

For those of you who have worked with Microsoft Excel 2003, the first thing you will notice when using Microsoft Excel 2010 is that Microsoft has done away with the standard toolbar. That is, you don’t see the typical pull-down menus found in older versions of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Instead, you’ll see the interface dubbed the Ribbon.

The Ribbon was actually introduced with the Release of Office 2007 as a significant departure from the old way of selecting commands. Instead of having to drill into multiple levels of toolbars to find the command that you need, the Ribbon brings your favorite commands out into the open and even allows you to discover some new commands ...