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title: "What is Ribbon MS-Excel?"  
description: "What is Ribbon MS-Excel?"  
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published: 2022-03-25  
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# What is Ribbon MS-Excel?

What is [Ribbon](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1494/what-is-ribbon-in-sharepoint-2010) MS-Excel?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

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- The **[Microsoft](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94460/why-is-microsoft-word-not-responding) Excel ribbon** is a row of tabs and icons at the top of the Excel window that allows you to easily locate, comprehend, and use commands for accomplishing a task. It appears to be a quite complicated toolbar, which it is.
- Excel 2007 introduced the ribbon, which replaced the previous version's traditional toolbars and pull-down menus. Microsoft added the option to customise the ribbon with Excel 2010.
- Tabs, groups, dialogue launchers, and command buttons are the four primary components of Excel's ribbon.
- Multiple commands are appropriately subdivided into groups on the **Ribbon tab.**
- A ribbon group is a collection of connected commands that are usually executed as part of a bigger task.

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