Office 2007 introduced users to the Ribbon, a menu replacement that made application functionality easier to find and faster to use in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. However, a common user request was for a level of customizability beyond adding commands to the Quick Access Toolbar. The Quick Access Toolbar with the Selection Pane command addedWell, it’s a whole new Office in 2010. A recent post in the
Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog announces the direct answer to that request: a customizable Ribbon.
Hello,
Office 2007 Enterprise Key, my name is Melissa Kerr and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team.Today I'm introducing the era of “This is your Ribbon,
Office Professional 2010!”,
Office Standard 2007, made possible by the new Ribbon customization feature available in
Office 2010. Ribbon customization is available across all
Office 2010 client applications,
Purchase Office 2007, and allows you to create a personalized Ribbon optimized to the way you work with the application. Customization is the ability to add, remove and relocate commands within an application, and is not a new idea. It began with Command Bars in Office 97, progressed to the Quick Access Toolbar in
Office 2007, and now has evolved to include Ribbon customization with
Office 2010…Read Melissa’s entire post here. The illustrations in that article show the customization process in Word 2010. But just to assure you, it’s right here in PowerPoint 2010 as well… A right click on the Ribbon brings up the Customize the Ribbon command,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, the entry point to making the Ribbon your ownRic Bretschneider
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