Ribbon in Excel
A complete tutorial on using the ribbon in Excel and an explanation of all the functions and components of the ribbon in Excel All tabs and how you customize, hide, and unhide the ribbon.
Like other office applications, Excel Ribbon is your primary part that has every feature you need for your work.
Now let’s start with the tutorial and discover all the features..
Excel ribbon
MS-Excel ribbon is a horizontal line of tabs and icons on the top of the window that allows the user to directly find all the commands to perform various features
The ribbon in Excel appeared in 2007, replacing the toolbars and drop-down menus found in previous versions. In the 2010 version of Excel, more features were added to personalize the ribbon.
The basic components of the ribbon in Excel are tabs, dialog launchers, and commands.
Ribbon tab: It contains tabs that have names according to their features.
Command button: This is clicked by the user when a particular task is performed
Ribbon group: it is a collection of all the commands brought together to perform certain tasks.
Dialog launcher: it is a small arrow that is present in the lower right corner of the group that opens more commands related to the group.
Ribbon tabs
The tabs row starts from left to right, and the tabs are followed as:
File
It provides a backstage view of all the important commands related to creating new sheets, opening files, printing files, and exporting files.
Home Tab
The home tab provides the basic functionalities like the font style, size of the font, editing the cells in the spreadsheet, alignment of text, etc
Insert Tab
It provides facilities like inserting tables, shapes, filters, links, sparklines, header and footer, Text box, pivot tables, comments equations and symbols, etc.
Page layout
It provides functions for spreadsheets like margins, themes, page setup, arrangement, etc. Page layout in the ribbon of Excel show sheet option like view, scale, Height, Width, print, size, etc.
Formulas
The function tab contains built-in libraries of functions and formulas that can be used just by clicking on them, defined names, formula auditing, calculation, etc.
Data
This tab is very helpful if you are going to perform analysis on a large number of data, like tool what-if analysis and more analysis tools like removing duplicates, transforming rows and columns, etc. It also help user to access data from various source like from web etc.
Review
It does things like , thesaurus, workbook statistics, accessibility, insights, language translation, notes, and hide ink. It also helps in sharing the workbook and protection sheet.
View
It contains the about the page view like the page book review, page break, zoom selection, and window section, show and hide ruler, freezing pane.
Automate
Previously this tab was available on Web Excel, but now in the latest update of Microsoft Excel, it’s present on ribbon in Excel. it allows users to add a new script and modify the office script. With one clicking on the automate tab to run the script.
Help
This tab allows users to contact the community get support about any problem and give feedback. This tab also shows the latest updates in Excel.
How to hide the ribbon in Excel?
You can use the Ctrl + F1 key to shrink the ribbon and free up as much room for your worksheet data as possible (this is especially useful if you’re using a laptop with a small screen).
Alternatively, you can choose to fully conceal the ribbon by selecting Auto-hide Ribbon after selecting the Ribbon Display Options option located in the Excel window’s upper-right corner.
How to unhide the ribbon in Excel?
If all instructions abruptly vanish from the Excel ribbon and just tab names are visible, you can restore everything by pressing Ctrl + F1.
Select Show Tabs and Commands from the Ribbon Display Options menu if the full ribbon is absent.
FAQs
1.What is the cell address in Excel?
A cell address is a combination of rows and columns that represent a cell on the sheet.
2.How the formula is different from the function in Excel?
A formula can perform basic arithmetic operations, such as addition, while a function can perform more complex tasks, such as finding the sum, or average.
3.What is the size limit of Excel?
The maximum size of an Excel sheet is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns.
4.What is Excel most used for?
Excel is mostly for storing data, analyzing, and creating a report on large amounts of data. It also used for data entry
5.What are the main functions used in Excel?
These are the following features of Excel:
● Sort and import data
● Charts and graphs
● Template/Dashboard
● Automation of Task
● Data entry
● Accounting
6.What are the reasons we use Excel?
● The best way to store data and analyze it.
● You can perform any math calculation.
● You can create graphical charts for visualization.
● You can code a script to automate.
● It provides many free templates.
● It manipulates data according to your need.
● It has a huge community to support.
In next tutorial, you will learn about the workbook in excel.
