Office 2007 Bible

Using Common Options

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access have some options in common. For example, each of these programs enables you to control how ScreenTips appear and what color scheme to use. The common options are found in the Popular category in the options dialog box for each program. Here’s a review of these common options:

• Show Mini Toolbar On Selection. This checkbox controls whether the Mini Toolbar appears when you select text. (Not in Access.)

• Enable Live Preview. When this option is selected, pointing to a style, font, or other formatting choice in a gallery displays a preview of that formatting on the selected object. (Not in Access.)

• Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon. Selecting this option displays a tab with tools for programming macros. (Not in Access.)

• Color Scheme. Select the Blue, Silver, or Black color scheme from this drop-down list.

• ScreenTip Style. Select a setting from this list to change the display style of ScreenTips or to turn them off altogether.

• User Name and Initials. Enter information in these text boxes to personalize an application and enable it to identify you as the author of your files. (Initials choice not in Excel.)

• Language Settings. Choose to add and change editing languages. (See Appendix C for more about this.)

Each of the applications offers options for setting up default save settings. In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you click the Save category at the left side of the Options dialog box to find the saving choices; in Access, the options ...