Lesson 1 - Chapter 1 - Intro

The Excel 2007 interface has been redesigned compared to the older versions of Excel we’re all used to. In place of the old pull-down menus, Excel 2007 now relies primarily on theRibbon, a block of commands displayed at the top of the screen and divided into distinctblocks called tabs. All that’s left of the old pull-down menus is the pull-down menuopened with the Office Button, which replicates most of the File commands. Also, inplace of the many toolbars of previous Excel versions, Excel 2007 offers a single toolbarcalled the Quick Access toolbar.The exercises in this first chapter are designed to get you familiar with the new Excel2007 interface. As a result of doing these exercises, you should be comfortable with allaspects of the display screen and the command structure and ready to do all the rest ofthe exercises in this book.Identifying the Parts ofthe Excel Display ScreenBefore you can start using Excel 2007, you have to be familiar with its display screen