1. Learningcomputer.com Introduction to Microsoft Word 2007 New Look and Feel

2. Where is the Menu and Toolbar?  Microsoft Office 2007 has replaced the Menu and Standard Toolbar with a new feature called “Ribbon”  This new interface improves the work flow which translates to a more efficient use of the application  The Ribbon is broken down into Tabs that deal with a specific document action  The Tabs are in turn split into Groups with a more focused functionality. The whole idea is to let the end user be more productive and spend less time looking for icons and commands

3. Lets go down the list  Office 2007 Button  Ribbon – Split into Tabs and Groups  Quick Access Toolbar  Mini Toolbar  Shortcut Menu aka Right Click Menu  Title Bar  Status Bar  Document View Bar  Zoom Toolbar

4. Office 2007 Button  The Office 2007 Button replaces the File menu available in previous versions of Microsoft Office  This provides functionality common to all Office applications like Word, Excel, Outlook etc.  The Office 2007 Button includes commands for opening, saving, printing, and closing a file  Commands are listed on the left side, and recently opened documents appear on the right side  The new Office 2007 Button is shown on the next slide

5. Microsoft Office Button

6. Ribbon  Microsoft Office 2007 has replaced the Menu and Standard Toolbar with a new feature called “Ribbon”  The Ribbon is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task. This improves the overall workflow in the Microsoft Office Applications  Commands are organized in Groups, which are collected together under Tabs that are specific to a certain action item  To reduce clutter, some tabs are shown only when needed. For example, the Table Tools tab is shown only when a table is selected

7. Ribbon

8. Quick Access Toolbar  Quick Access Toolbar is a new feature of Microsoft Word 2007  It lets you access commonly used commands in a similar fashion as the old Standard Toolbar  By default, this toolbar shows Save, Undo, and Redo icons  You can easily customize this toolbar, e.g. in our case, it has the Save, Undo, Redo, Print, Spelling and Open commands  We will cover how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar later in our video training

9. Mini Toolbar  Mini Toolbar is also a new feature of Microsoft Word 2007  When editing text, it displays a toolbar offering a group of commonly used formatting commands  It combines commands from the Font and Paragraph group available under the Home Tab  Mini Toolbar is a timesaver if you are working on a different tab and have to perform formatting related tasks

10. Shortcut Menu  Shortcut Menu is invoked by using the RMB (right mouse button)  It also has the list of commonly used commands like Cut, Paste, Font etc  Also known as the Context Menu  A screen shot is shown here  Notice that the Mini Toolbar is displayed on top of it

11. Title Bar  The Title Bar is present at the top of our document  This is shown in the screen capture above  It will typically have the document name and the current application information. In addition it will have the Windows resizing buttons  Notice on the left side of the Title bar you can also see the Quick Access Toolbar

12. Status Bar  Status Bar displays some information on the document  It also has the Document View Bar and Zoom Toolbar  Document View Bar lists all the different layouts that you can view the document in  Zoom Toolbar is handy when you would like to see your document from a bird’s eye view  Screen shot is as follows Document View Toolbar Zoom Toolbar