Work the way you want in Office 2010 with the fully customizable ribbon

Check out the improved Ribbon in Office 2010! Across applications you can access your favorite commands more quickly by customizing Ribbon tabs or by creating your own to suit your work style. 

"One of the features I've enjoyed using the most is the updated ribbon.  The ribbon has made life much easier as at a glance I'm able to easily find the different commands I need in Word, Excel, Publisher or any of the other Office products."

- Aaress Lawless, On the Baseline.com, #1 Women's Tennis News Website

 

By customizing the ribbon you can:

  • Create custom tabs and custom groups
  • Add custom and built-in groups to custom and built-in tabs
  • Add commands to custom groups. You can drag and drop right in the Options dialog to add and rearrange tabs, groups, and commands
  • Rename any tab, group, or command
  • Change the icon for any group or command
  • Hide any tab (without deleting it), so you can reuse it later
  • Remove built-in groups from built-in tabs
  • Choose to show only icons (without labels) for commands in a custom group, so you can fit more in
  • Reset single tabs or all your customization back to their default state
  • Export your customizations to other computers 
  • Restrict customizations
  • Control roaming of customizations, so you can use your customizations wherever you log on
  • Distribute customizations to multiple users

Read the Office 2010 Ribbon post on the Office 2010 Engineering blog for more details. And here's how to customize the ribbon.

While you're at it, check out this Office 2010 Ribbon customization video. Echo Swinford, a PowerPoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP), showed us at a recent MVP Summit how she customizes the ribbon to reflect her training workflow and how the customizations work across every Office 2010 product. You can also read this article to familiarize yourself with the ribbon in PowerPoint 2010.

Download the Office 2010 Beta and weave your own ribbon experience...

---Holly Thomas

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  • Desejo resolver os problemas se travamento e fechamento de programas, que têm sido constantes. Ao abrir arquivo da Internet, com tentativa de imprimir, salvar, etc.. surge mensagem: o Windows encontrou um problema de deve fechar e fecha, deixando-me em situação constrangedora.

  • Como poderia resolver esse problema? Não domino o inglês, ficando difícil para entender e/ou desenvolver uma rotina em língua estrangeira. Enquanto isso meu PC permanece com problemas.

  • Sugestão: aprenda inglês. o mudo é em inglês (infelizmente), a programação é em inglês, as microsoft "fala inglês". A mim também custou e continuarei a aprender a cada minuto. -TODO- o software que instálo é em inglês apesar de não viver em nenhum país de lingua oficial inglesa. Boa sorte.

  • I installed MS Office 2010 beta version yesterday, created a document in Publisher, but when I've gone back to attempt to make changes, I get locked up every single time.  This is driving me crazy and I've got to get ths time-sensitive document out ASAP.  No error messages...nothing.

  • Oh, so you're putting back Office 2003 features after you completely trashed the U.I. in 2007, and you're calling it new features in 2010, brilliant! You're intellectually bankrupt.

  • Definitely  speeds  things  up in  your work,  But  When  mistakes are made because  you  took  program  software for granted, you could lose a job today, simply because  you  did  not  check your  figures....

  • When making a visit to this wonderful blog I was very happy where I had the knowledge of various information enriching. Continue playing like this work so that people can have the opportunity to acquire this information

  • I hate the ribbon interface of office 2010. I'm sure I will get use to it but I would much rather work with the simple 2003 or old interface. I don't like spending time figure out what some cute icon represents. I would much rather read the command name.

  • Nice blog! Work the way you want in Office 2010 with the fully customizable ribbon

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