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  • Office ribbon Portal Page: *GET* it

    17 Jun 2011
    For customers new to the Office ribbon, we know there's a learning curve. While this learning curve is part of what we address with “Getting Started” content, for some customers 'ribbon angst' can persist far beyond "Getting Started." This is particularly true for folks who have a long history...

  • Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

    15 Jun 2011
    But even so, an old hat (like the Hogwart's sorting hat ) can discover new tricks that it didn't know were possible. Excel 2010 has some really great new additions as well as improvements (I probably shouldn't use that word-- improvements-- but everything and everybody can fashion some room within themselves...

  • The ribbon: Who's a fan of the bread and butter of Office?

    4 Mar 2011
    If anyone is passionate about Office, it's Steven Sinofsky . Don't know who Steven is? Although now he's president of the Windows division here at Microsoft, he spent years in the Office division as head of product development. But it's as an Office customer that Steven is so excited about many of the...

  • You create your own freedom: Go get your ribbon roadmap

    27 Dec 2010
    When Office 2007 first came out, what everyone noticed first was the new interface, namely, the ribbon. This ribbon replaced the menus and toolbars—yes, the self-same menus and toolbars that you constantly griped about and yet were suddenly so enamored of (you cannot imagine how much whiny feedback...

  • Remembering those good old tips (oops, I did it again)

    3 Dec 2010
    For the last 12 months, I've provided you with ideas, tips, tricks, a bit of humor, shopping ideas, comments on popular and inane American culture, and ways to get out of working with difficult people. Since everyone seems to be in shopping list mode—except perhaps our Jewish friends who've already...

  • Visions & Concepts: Become a Ribbon Hero

    15 Sep 2010
    The idea of Ribbon Hero was hatched at Office Labs (a sort of playground for prototypes here at Microsoft) as a way to encourage Office users to learn, through game play, how to be more productive in Office —using, what else, the ribbon. Teaching through game play is becoming increasingly popular...

  • Dear Crabby: Adding commands to the QAT

    10 Sep 2010
    The whole point of the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) is to be able to take whatever features and functions you like (and use a lot) that are on the ribbon (in Office 2010 or 2007) and make them easily accessible on one little toolbar—hence the words "quick" and "access" (not to mention "toolbar")...

  • Visions & concepts from Office Labs: Search Commands

    15 Jul 2010
    Say you've never heard of interactive guides. You're brand new to Office 2007 and you're frustrated and you're mad and you're wondering where in the heck everything went! See, you know there’s a page orientation drop-down choice in Word but it isn't where it used to be! And you know you need to...

  • Get a load of this: Menu ——> Ribbon Interactive Guides

    13 Jul 2010
    And so into the breach we go: Into What did we do to help you find everything again? Well, we created some road maps for you of course; your own personal GPS modules. Did we leave you stranded, forcing you to fend for yourself? We did not. Did we expect you to be Bear Grylls , killing a deadly snake...

  • Doing it your way with the Quick Access Toolbar: Crabby's Daily Tip

    10 May 2010
    If you know me (and many of you do), you know I'm about customizing. All of us are like snowflakes, each one a unique and special individual. We have our individual tastes, likes, dislikes, fashion sense, lack of fashion sense, love for the ribbon just as it is, want to make it our own... The Quick Access...

  • Minimize — don't marginalize — the Ribbon

    12 Feb 2010
    No, you CANNOT get rid of the Ribbon. However, you CAN make it smaller. Full Ribbon Minimized Ribbon Click Customize Quick Access Toolbar . In the list, click Minimize the Ribbon To use the while it is minimized, click the tab you want to use, and then click the option or command you want to use. For...

  • Office Ribbon: Where are my $*#(@)!*? commands???

    2 Feb 2010
    Where did everything go? To see where many Word 2003 commands are located in the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, you can use the Interactive Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide . The guide is a visual, interactive tool that helps you quickly learn where commands are in Word 2007...