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Navigating with the Mouse and Keyboard — Introducing the Ribbon 9
arrow (known as a split button), the icon or text part of the button
represents the most common command for the button. Clicking the arrow
part displays a menu or gallery with additional commands or formatting
choices. The two types of buttons with arrows look similar, but if you
hover the mouse pointer over a button with an attached arrow, you see a
clear delineation between the icon or text (command) part and the arrow
(menu) part (refer to Figure 1-3).
✓ Check box: This is a square box that you click to turn an option on or off.
✓ Command group: Each Ribbon tab contains groups of related commands.
For example, you find commands related to text fonts in the Font group of
the Home tab.
✓ Dialog launcher: A dialog launcher is a command that launches a dialog
box (a pop-up window) from a command group, menu, or gallery. The
dialog launcher in a command group is a little button in the bottom right of
the group frame. In addition, some menus and galleries contain options
that launch dialog boxes. After you click a dialog launcher, a dialog box
appears that presents additional choices. (However, the Ribbon displays
the commands you are likely to use frequently, thus minimizing the need
to launch dialog boxes.)
✓ Drop-down list: This list contains things you can choose from. Click the
control’s downward-pointing arrow to display the list.
✓ Gallery: A gallery is a control that presents you with a set of graphic
choices, such as a particular formatting style (patterns, colors, and effects)
or a predefined layout. An example of a predefined layout is a chart choice
with specific elements preselected for inclusion in the chart. Galleries
enable Excel to be more results oriented; that is, they present the likely
result you are looking for first and then expose advanced choices through
a dialog box or Ribbon command.
Three types of galleries are available:
• Drop-down gallery: This is displayed after you click certain buttons
with downward-pointing arrows. This type of gallery presents a single
column of choices and includes both graphic and text elements.
• Drop-down grid: This is displayed after you click certain buttons
with downward-pointing arrows. This type of gallery presents a
two-dimensional grid of choices and does not include text.
• In-Ribbon gallery: This is like the drop-down grid, but this gallery
exposes a single row of choices directly within a Ribbon control group.
You can click up and down scroll arrows to reveal additional rows, or
you can click a drop-down arrow to display the full set of choices in a
two-dimensional grid.
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