Tabs and tools when you need them
Some commands only appear when you need them. For example, picture or chart tools only appear when you click on a picture or chart in your document. When you are working on the picture or chart, the tools are visible. If you click away from the picture or chart, they disappear. To make them visible again, click the picture or chart again.
The actual tools may not appear: but their tab appears above the ribbon. Click that tab to bring the tools into view. Clicking away from the picture will make these tabs and tools disappear. Here ’s an example from Word:
- The Picture Tools tab appears when you click on a picture.
- When you click the Picture Tools tab, the actual tool choices for pictures appear.
- You may have to click on the Format tab under Picture Tools to display the tools.
- When you click away from the picture in your document, the Picture Tools tab and its tools disappears.
- Play with some of the options to see what they do. More info on the New Graphics page.
The popup formatting toolbar (aka the Ghostly Toolbar)
When you double- or triple-click to highlight text in Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007, you’ll see a ghostly toolbar if you look carefully (really). To make it fade into reality from its ghostly status, move your cursor into it. It provides quick formatting choices.
Or, you can see the same toolbar along with many other choices by highlighting text and then right-clicking on the highlighted area.
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