Microsoft Press First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System

Chapter 2: A New Look 17
Command Tabs
The menu system you are used to seeing in Microsoft Office has now been replaced with a
series of command tabs that relate directly to the tasks you need to accomplish. For example,
the new command tabs in Microsoft® Office Word 2007 are File (marked by the 2007 release
logo), Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View (see Figure 2-2). In
Office Excel 2007, the command tabs are File, Home, Insert, Page Layout, Formulas, Data,
Review, and View.
Figure 2-2 The command tabs in Office Word 2007 correspond to the different tasks of
preparing a document.
The tabs correspond directly to the stages of the process you’re likely to follow as you create a
project in an application. For example, when you’re creating a worksheet, you need commands
related to data entry, editing, and formatting. Further on in the process, you might
want to work with the information on the worksheet by sorting, filtering, consolidating, or
validating it. These commands are available in the Data tab, further down the row in the
Office Excel 2007 command tab display.