11. Excel: Snapshot

The Office button is a good indicator of the Office Web apps' different stages of development (and of the changes that are taking place to what’s called the Backstage menu in the Office desktop apps). In Word and PowerPoint Web, it is labeled as "File," which is what we’ll see in the beta of Office 2010. In the Excel Web app, it still has the Office logo on, like the Office 2010 technical preview. In Word Web, the menu lets you open the file in a fully copy of Word (just like the button on the ribbon), print the document, close it, or send feedback about Word Web. In PowerPoint Web, the menu also lets you open the document in PowerPoint, close it, or send feedback–but instead of printing, you can see an explanation of why there is no Save button (because files are saved automatically as you work). Excel has the most options, including several different ways of making a copy of the spreadsheet.