What happened to the File menu?
Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time! What happened to the file menu? The old style menu system from Office 2003, Office XP, and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use. The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar) The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is l
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