On the other hand, even if you’re coming to Excel 2010 from the 2007 rendition, you’ll quickly observe
one significant departure from that latter interface—the debut of the File tab, distinguished from all the
other tabs by its conspicuous green cast. The File tab supplants the 2007 Office button—perhaps destined
to go down as a one-hit wonder, having come and gone with that release alone (See Figure 1–15.)
Figure 1–15. The Office 2007 button
The suspicion was that too many users mistook this button for nothing more than an inert logo
when they first saw it, and not as the repository of important commands it actually was (my wife, a
moderately experienced user, tells me it took her ages to figure out what the button did). In any case,
click the 2010 File tab and this time you won’t r oll out one mor e ar r ay of buttons atop your scr een;
instead, you’ll see something like Figure 1–16:
Figure 1–16. All buttoned up: How the 2010 File menu looks
Clicking File, the rough—very rough—equivalent of the pre-2007 menu bar command with the
same name can bring you to a number of notable destinations gathered in what’s called the Backstage:
• For starters, it presents you with a list of recently accessed spreadsheets, so you
can swiftly retrieve them again.
• It offers up basic Office commands that affect files, such as Open, Save, Save As,
and Close.
• It warehouses various printing options.
• It contains numerous default settings, e.g., the typeface and font size in effect
when you start any new spreadsheet. Of course, the defaults are there to be
changed, as you see fit. For example – if you want to change Excel’s default font,
cl i ck Fi l e
Options General, and then enter the appropriate font and font size
choices in the dr op-down menus.
• It furnishes Excel’s Help component.
And File allows you to customize your ribbon in a variety of ways, either by enabling you to
fashion new groups you can then post inside the existing tabs (quick review: groups are the
subdivisions of tabs) or freeing you to customize new tabs altogether, by selecting, grouping, and
subsumi n g comman ds un de r a n e w tab n ame of y our de v i si ng .
That last point also reminds us that Excel is stocked with a rather prodigious array of commands
that, by de faul t, don’t appear on any tab. But they’re all listed here in the deeper recesses of File, to be
adde d to tabs by use r s who n e e d the m, as shown i n Fi g ur e 1– 17:
Figure 1–17. Inside the File tab, where all of Excel commands are listed
Figure 1–17 captures but an excerpt of all the available commands; and while you may not need to
import too many of these into your tabs, remember the knowing-more-is-better credo. There are some
cool capabilities stored in that list—capabilities you may one day decide you’d like to use.
one significant departure from that latter interface—the debut of the File tab, distinguished from all the
other tabs by its conspicuous green cast. The File tab supplants the 2007 Office button—perhaps destined
to go down as a one-hit wonder, having come and gone with that release alone (See Figure 1–15.)
Figure 1–15. The Office 2007 button
The suspicion was that too many users mistook this button for nothing more than an inert logo
when they first saw it, and not as the repository of important commands it actually was (my wife, a
moderately experienced user, tells me it took her ages to figure out what the button did). In any case,
click the 2010 File tab and this time you won’t r oll out one mor e ar r ay of buttons atop your scr een;
instead, you’ll see something like Figure 1–16:
Clicking File, the rough—very rough—equivalent of the pre-2007 menu bar command with the
same name can bring you to a number of notable destinations gathered in what’s called the Backstage:
• For starters, it presents you with a list of recently accessed spreadsheets, so you
can swiftly retrieve them again.
• It offers up basic Office commands that affect files, such as Open, Save, Save As,
and Close.
• It warehouses various printing options.
• It contains numerous default settings, e.g., the typeface and font size in effect
when you start any new spreadsheet. Of course, the defaults are there to be
changed, as you see fit. For example – if you want to change Excel’s default font,
cl i ck Fi l e
Options General, and then enter the appropriate font and font size choices in the dr op-down menus.
• It furnishes Excel’s Help component.
And File allows you to customize your ribbon in a variety of ways, either by enabling you to
fashion new groups you can then post inside the existing tabs (quick review: groups are the
subdivisions of tabs) or freeing you to customize new tabs altogether, by selecting, grouping, and
subsumi n g comman ds un de r a n e w tab n ame of y our de v i si ng .
That last point also reminds us that Excel is stocked with a rather prodigious array of commands
that, by de faul t, don’t appear on any tab. But they’re all listed here in the deeper recesses of File, to be
adde d to tabs by use r s who n e e d the m, as shown i n Fi g ur e 1– 17:
Figure 1–17 captures but an excerpt of all the available commands; and while you may not need to
import too many of these into your tabs, remember the knowing-more-is-better credo. There are some
cool capabilities stored in that list—capabilities you may one day decide you’d like to use.
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