Another efficient feature of 2007 Office is in the lower right corner of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.  When you open these applications you will see that the “zoom” feature is now available, as well as other logical “view” features for each application.

1. Excel
2. PowerPoint

In the Insert Ribbon/Tab at the bottom of Page 10 there is a new selection that improves on the “old” Drawing Toolbar – especially SmartArt.  SmartArt is a part of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 

Currently, when you click an image in Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007 or Excel 2007, a Picture Tools Tab/Ribbon will be available to you.  We placed a Microsoft Clip Art frog on the left.  When we click the frog a Picture Tools Tab appears above of the other Tabs/Ribbons.

When you move to the other Tabs/Ribbons, you’ll notice that they contain their own Groups – associated with that Tab. 

Hang on!  The next Group on the Word Home Tab/Ribbon is Styles.  If you go back to Page 6 and glance at the Word, PowerPoint and Excel Home Tabs, you’ll see that the right portion of a Tab is where the application selections change to fit the application

In the image below, the arrows point to a new topic – Groups.

When you’re working with text and fonts a really ingenious “new thing” occurs as you highlight text - a Select Text Mini Toolbar appears! 

In the image below, the arrows point to a new topic – Groups.