

Instead of old-style menus, in which menus have submenus, submenus have sub-submenus and so on, the Ribbon groups small icons for common tasks together in tabs on a big, well, ribbon. Love it or hate it, the Ribbon is the main way you'll work with Excel. Just to the right of the Office button is the Quick Access toolbar, with buttons for using Excel’s most common features, including Save, Undo, Redo, Sort, Print Preview and more, but you can add and remove buttons for any functions you please.

You'll find familiar features for opening files, saving files, printing files and so on, but there's a lot more here as well, as you'll discover later in this guide. The big button on the upper left-hand corner of the screen replaces the old File menu from previous versions of Excel. Here's a quick guided tour to the Excel 2007 interface: No matter what you do - from opening files or adding formulas to creating charts or even just using a menu - you'll find things have changed.

The Excel 2007 interface represents possibly the biggest change Microsoft has made to the look and feel of the program and to how you get at its myriad features. So come along with us, and you'll find yourself creating charts and crunching numbers in no time at all.
