MS Office 2010

In the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system, file-level functionality was accessible on the Office menu that was available by clicking the Office button.

In Microsoft Office 2010, the Office button is replaced by a File tab. Clicking the File tab takes you to the Microsoft Office Backstage view. Backstage view helps you discover and use the features that fall outside the authoring features on the Ribbon. Ribbon, Mini toolbar and galleries all help you work in your documents; Backstage view helps you work with your documents.



Backstage view is fully extensible by developers, permitting organizations to customize the user interface (UI) to suit their own needs. And best of all, the Backstage UI is customizable by using the same files, callbacks, and many of the controls used in the Ribbon. This means that developers already familiar with customizing the Ribbon UI can use those same skills to create a Backstage UI targeted at the needs of their organization.

The Backstage UI exists in almost all Microsoft Office 2010 applications that support the Office Fluent UI: Microsoft Access 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Publisher 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft Word 2010. The following sections describe the structure of the new UI, and examine details you need to implement your own custom Backstage UI.

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