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Excel 2007, 2010: Insert Clip Art -
Opens a search form to look for clip art images, and then shows thumbnails of the results. Not all image formats will show thumbnails.

How to open: Insert ribbon tab > Illustrations tab group > Clip Art button

Default location of pane: Right side

Selection and Visibility -
The pane has a list of objects in the worksheet. Clicking a name in the list selects the object, which can be clip art, a picture, Word Art, or a shape, including a text box. The Selection and Visibility pane enables you to select objects that may be hard to select with the mouse You can then move, modify, hide, or change the stacking order for objects.

How to open: Drawing Tools: Format or Picture Tools: Format> Arrange tab group > Selection pane button

Default location: Right side

Excel 2007, 2010: Research -
The Research pane includes a drop list of several sources to search, including a dictionary, thesaurus, and online sites. You can add other services to this list.

How to open:
Review > Proofing tab group > Research or Thesaurus buttons

Review > Translate tab group > Translate button

Default location: Right side

Document Recovery -
By default, Office automatically saves your work at intervals. When an Office program closes unexpectedly (perhaps from a power outage or a computer crash), the Document Recovery task pane opens the next time you start that program. It shows you a list of one to three previously saved versions of the documents that were open when the program crashed or was shut down incorrectly. Any changes you made between the AutoSave and the crash are lost. If you had recently saved your documents, you may not want any of the versions listed at all.

You can View the available version, Delete it, or Save As with a different name.

How to open: Open automatically when you open the program after a crash.

Default location: Left side

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Managing the Task Pane

Open pane

A task pane can open from a button or automatically when needed. It depends on the task.

Hide pane

You can hide the Task Pane by:

1. Click its Close button

2. Click the button on the ribbon that opened it.

Be careful not to click the button that closes the document, or the one that closes Excel.
(Are we getting too many Close buttons yet??)

Move pane

A Task Pane can be docked at the right or left edge of the window or it can float. Office remembers where you put it the last time.

Dock: Drag it by its title bar until about half the pane is past the edge of the window. The pane snaps in place.

Float: Drag it by its title bar toward the central area of the window until the pane releases from the window's edge.

Resize pane

Docked: Drag the free edge of a docked pane to make it wider or narrower.

Floating: Resize in any direction. A wide floating task pane is useful when there is a lot of text or a large number of cells to inspect in order to choose which item you want. Office will remember the width and height the next time you float the pane.

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