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Chapter 1: The Two-Dollar Tour
3. Click Microsoft Office.
4. Click the Office application you want to start.
Explore the Office Ribbon and Tabs
All Office 2010 applications have a common system of navigation
called the Ribbon, which is a tabbed bar across the top of the applica-
tion window. Each tab is like a page of buttons. You click different
tabs to access different sets of buttons and features.
Figure 1-2 shows the Ribbon in Microsoft Word, with the Home tab
displayed. Within a tab, buttons are organized into groups. In Figure
1-2, the Home tab’s groups are Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, and
Editing.
This tab is currently active
Click a different tab to activate it Help button
Figure 1-2
Each Office application has a set of tabs for the tasks it performs. For
example, Word has a Mailings tab that holds the commands for doing
mail merges. Excel has a Formulas tab that holds the commands for
setting up calculations.
You might find tabs that were added by third-party
(non-Microsoft) software. For example, if you have a
program called Adobe Acrobat installed, you might
have an Acrobat tab in each of the Office applications.
The buttons and controls on the tabs operate in different ways. Figure
1-3 points out some examples in the Paragraph group on Word’s
Home tab.
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