People use the multipurpose Microsoft Excel for everything from logging scientific spreadsheets rife with calculations and charts, to tracking quarterly sales of widgets, to cataloging the books in ...

Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

When most users open Office 2007’s Excel—launched with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system—their first reaction is, “ Where’s the file menu? How do I begin?” This article is designed to help you ...

If you’re a full-time spreadsheet jockey, or just a casual number-cruncher, you’ve come to know and either love or hate Excel’s interface. Well, your world just changed. Throw away almost everything ...

Three programs tackle Office 2007's locked-down user interface. Two take you back to the menus of Office 2003, while one lets you customize the Ribbon itself. Microsoft Office 2007’s new Ribbon ...

Spreadsheets that contain complicated formulas and a lot of data can take a while to load when you open them in Excel 2007, but that's not the only reason spreadsheets can be slow to load. Microsoft ...

One of the new features in Microsoft Office 2007 that has everyone talking is Themes. The new themes include colors, fonts and designs that help you create attractive, professional-looking documents ...

Hey all,<BR><BR>I have a user confused by Excel 2007 who would rather customize it to behave like Excel XP or 2003. Is there a toggle somewhere to reorganize the menus and menubars?

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Microsoft has scheduled a radical 2007 makeover for its ubiquitous productivity suite, Office. The impending release, expected early next year, will further distinguish Redmond's tools from the ...