| | See also and notes | VBA / Object model |
| Worksheet window | aka work area | worksheet |
| Ribbon | The thing that replaced the menu bar in Office 2007 | |
| Scroll bars | | worksheet.scrollArea; window.displayHorizontalScrollbar and .displayVerticalScrollBar |
| Formula bar | Below the ribbon, used to enter or edit values or formulas. | |
| Name box | Identifies the selected cell, chart item or drawing object; positioned at the left side of the formula bar. Allows to name a cell or a range. | |
| Row and column headings | The gray (numbered or lettered) area to the top and left of a row or column. An entire row/column can be selected by clicking on the heading, the width/height of the columns/rows can be changed there as well. | window.displayHeadings |
| Sheet tabs | A.k.a rowkbook tabs | window.displayWorkbookTabs and window.scrollWorkbookTabs() |
| Title bar | At the top of the Excel window, displays the name of the workbook currently worked on. | |
| Status bar | | |
| Grid, gridlines | | window.gridlineColor and .gridlineColorIndex |
| Quick access toolbar (?) | | |
| Popups and dialogs | | |
| Panes | Panes such as the selection pane (which is opened using Home -> Editing -> Find & Select -> Selection Pane …) or the XML Source task pane. | |
| Title bar | | window.caption |
| Outline symbols | | window.displayOutline |
| Ruler | | window.displayRuler |