With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft made several improvements to the Office suite that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. The biggest changes to the software have been in the graphical interface. The menu and toolbars have been replaced by the Ribbon. Office 2007 is for computers with the Windows operating system.
Features
Many changes have been made to Office with the release of 2007. The information provided in this document is by no means an all-inclusive listing of all the changes.
The following set of ribbons is available with every document that is opened in Excel. Other ribbons are available for specialized tasks and will only appear when needed. An example is the Chart ribbon.
The following set of ribbons is available with every document that is opened in Word. Other ribbons are available for specialized tasks and will only appear when you are working on a specific task. For example, if you insert a picture into your document, the Picture Tools ribbon tab will appear in red at the top of the ribbon listing.