For example, if you insert a chart in Excel, the Chart Tools tab will appear, with Design, Layout, and Format subtabs, as shown below. In addition to the standard tabs, you'll see specialized contextual tabs that appear depending on what you're working on. For instance, Excel's standard set of tabs (which you can see above) includes Formulas and Data, whereas Word offers References and Mailings. #2: Tabs, contextual tabs, program tabsĮach of the beRibboned apps initially displays a standard set of tabs, which vary depending on the application.
Below is the Ribbon that appears when you're in an Excel worksheet cell. Some icons are bigger than others, engineered that way to add prominence to the most commonly used items. It houses tabs with functional groupings of buttons and drop-down lists that are supposed to be relevant to particular tasks. If you've seen Office 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, or Outlook items such as messages), you know about the Ribbon.
To help clarify things - and possibly to facilitate clearer conversations about all these features as you help users get up to speed - I've listed 10 major Office 2007 interface elements (using their Microsoft-given names). So, for instance, the Office button has been variously called "the Logo button," "the Office icon," and "the big round control at the left end of the ribbon bar." Not only has there been some confusion over where all the familiar stuff has gone and how to use the new stuff, but there have been rampant inconsistencies in terminology. I've read a lot of early documents trying to sort out and describe the new Office 2007 interface. This information is also available as a PDF download.
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