Familiarize yourself with the ribbon

The ribbon can help you quickly find the commands that you have to have to complete a task. Commands are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs. In earlier versions of Office for Mac, many of these commands were located on the Formatting Palette.

Expand or minimize ribbon

Callout 1 Tabs

Callout 2 Ribbon

Do any of the following:

Minimize the ribbon while you are working

Expand the ribbon while you are working

See more selections in scrolling galleries

Use the format tabs

Resize the document window to see more or fewer items on the ribbon

Turn off the ribbon