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The document discusses the interface of Microsoft Excel. It describes the ribbon, which replaced drop-down menus in Excel 2007 and allows users to access tools through graphical tabs. The Home and Insert tabs contain buttons for common commands and adding elements. The file tab differs by replacing the screen with the backstage view for file-related tasks. Below the ribbon is the formula bar for entering data and formulas. The status bar provides dynamic options based on selections. The quick access toolbar in the top left offers save, undo, and redo commands.

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Excel Interface

The document discusses the interface of Microsoft Excel. It describes the ribbon, which replaced drop-down menus in Excel 2007 and allows users to access tools through graphical tabs. The Home and Insert tabs contain buttons for common commands and adding elements. The file tab differs by replacing the screen with the backstage view for file-related tasks. Below the ribbon is the formula bar for entering data and formulas. The status bar provides dynamic options based on selections. The quick access toolbar in the top left offers save, undo, and redo commands.

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So now that we've got Microsoft Excel launched on our

computers, let's take a look at the Excel interface. Now.


I'm going to break the interface up into two different
sections and we're going to approach this into two
separate videos. The first one is going to be about Excel
application interface and then we're going to talk about
the Excel document itself. the first version of excel 2007
had a pretty consistent interface. They had this for years.
They had these drop-down menus. file edit view insert
tools and so on and they were the text-based drop down
menus. now 2007 and later. I'm in 2016 here they strip
those out and they gave us what's called the ribbon. It’s
the top portion of your screen. It shows a graphical
tabbed interface where you'll find all of the tools that are
at your disposal within the given application and this isn't
something that's just for excel. the same concept of
ribbon applies to word, PowerPoint, Outlook, access any
of the newer Microsoft Office applications. So take a look
here. I'm currently on the insert Tab and I've got all these
graphical tool buttons that I can click on to insert Content
and additional elements into my Excel workbook. If I hop
over to the Home tab, I've now got a separate set of
tools nice big graphical buttons that give me access to
some very common commands that you'll be working as
you develop Excel documents. Now, each of these Tabs
are very similar. They just hold their respective features
except for one which is file tab.
The file tab is a bit different in comparison to others
because it’s not just a simple tab. if I click on it. It doesn’t
shows a bunch of commands, but it replaces the entire
screen. This is commonly referred as the backstage view.
This is where you'll find all the features, all the
commands that deals with the file as a whole things like
creating new documents, opening documents, saving
documents printing documents and so on. This is your
file tab or the backstage view. now, I want to get out of
the file Tab all I have to do is click that little arrow up
there at the top of the screen and I'm back inside Excel.
right below the ribbon, You've got What's called the
formula bar. the formula bar is going to become more
relevant and more useful as you start entering data and
editing that data as well as adding formulas, calculations
inside of your Excel document. So you got your Ribbon,
you got your formula bar and now down at the very
bottom of the screen you got What's called the status
bar. now the status bar isn’t giving me much options
right now at this moment, but it is very Dynamic based
on what you're doing. What you have selected, you will
see different options on this little grey bar here.
for now the only useful stuff that I have at this moment
is a few different views. I've got my standard normal view
where you'll spend most of your time. That's what you're
looking at right now. I've got page layout View and page
break preview that we will talk about more later on as
we get into printing our document. you've got a little
zoom bar with a nice little interactive slider that you can
zoom in and zoom out on your document. We have
talked about Ribbons, formula bar and status bar. Now
there is one more area. This is something we're going to
talk much more in depth in the next video. But in the top
left corner, you've got What's called the quick access
toolbar. Microsoft has provided three commands within
Excel to give you quick easy access to these commands
found on the quick access toolbar. You've got save, undo
and redo three simple commands, simply at your
fingertips for quick easy access.

We're gonna take a look in the next video how you can
customize that quick access toolbar but take a moment
before you jump into that video just browse around with
the inner interface take a look at the ribbon. Look at a
few different tabs up there, take a look at the status bar,
Maybe Going to couple different views and getting back
in the normal. spend most of your time with it and get
familiar with the Excel application interface.

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