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10 Part 1: Getting to Know Excel 2010
✓ Menu, rich: Rich menus have illustrative graphics, the command name,
and in some cases a short description of what the command does.
Remember: Don’t confuse rich menus with drop-down galleries, although
they look similar. Menus contain related commands. Galleries allow you to
choose from among a set of formats or layouts.
✓ Menu, standard: Most users are already familiar with this form of menu —
a drop-down list of choices with command names (such as Copy or Insert
Cells). Some command names have small associated icons. If you click a
command name that ends with an ellipsis (…), Excel displays a dialog box
that presents further choices.
✓ Spinner: A spinner is a control with two arrows (one pointing up, the other
pointing down) used with an input box to specify a number (height or
width, for example.) Clicking an arrow increases or decreases the number
in the input box. You can also enter a number in the box directly. The
spinner control allows you to use only valid numbers.
✓ Tab, contextual: Contextual tabs give the Ribbon the power to expose
most Excel features. One or more contextual tabs appear after you insert
or select an object, such as a chart, shape, table, or picture. For example,
after you insert a chart, three contextual tabs related to chart functionality
appear on the Ribbon and a header labeled Chart Tools appears on the
Excel title bar above the contextual tabs. Contextual tabs contain all the
commands you need for working with the particular object. After you
deselect an object, the contextual tabs (and the header) disappear.
The general rules that govern the display of contextual tabs follow:
• After you select an object (such as a chart, shape, or table), one or
more contextual tabs for the object appear on the Ribbon. You must
select a tab to display the associated commands.
• After you insert an object, Excel displays the commands for the first tab
of the contextual tab set for that object.
• After you double-click an object, Excel displays the commands for the
first tab of the contextual tab set for that object. Note that not all
objects have this double-click capability.
• After you select, deselect, and then reselect the object without using
any other commands in-between, Excel displays the commands for the
first tab of the contextual tab set for that object.
✓ Tab, custom: In addition to the built-in standard and contextual Ribbon
tabs that Excel includes, you can create custom Ribbon tabs.
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