Having trouble with Excel 2007 commands?

Posted on April 24, 2008 by nbowles

It seems there is a lot of concern amongst people moving to Excel 2007 that they cant find the commands under the menus they are used to

Microsoft, unsuprisingly, have done lots of work to make sure the upgrade is a smooth as possible. After all they spent over £1bn on R&D for this new ribbon technology so they want you to adopt it!

Heres a great resource to use to find those function. Simply start the interactive guide and perform the function as you would in 2003. Then the interface will spin and show you where the function exists in 2007.

This is what happened when I used it to find how to hide and unhide sheets.

Click the 2003 menus to hide/unhide sheet tabs...It
 
And then the demo moves to the 2007 interface and repeats your move…

The 2007 ribbon interface 

Very neat.

Here is a link to the interactive tool. You need Adobe Flash Player 7.0 or later

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101491511033.aspx

 

 

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One Response to “Having trouble with Excel 2007 commands?”

  1. Alex Reeves, on April 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm Said:

    Great tool. I have been dreading the upgrade from the previous version of office as I am a heavy Excel user, and the first time I saw the new interface I couldn’t find anything!

    Hopefully this will ease me into the new 2007 UI without having to randomly click on menus to find the command I am missing.

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