The goal of the Microsoft Office 2010 working environment is to make working with
Office files—including Microsoft Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint presentations,
Outlook e-mail messages, and Access databases—as intuitive as possible. You
work with an Office file and its contents by giving commands to the program in which
the document is open. All Office 2010 programs organize commands on a horizontal bar
called the ribbon, which appears across the top of each program window whether or not
there is an active document.