Getting the Most Out of the Microsoft Office 2010 User interface

Microsoft Office 2010 no longer has the menu and toolbars design system w Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise hich was used in Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier.

Microsoft Office 2010 makes use of:

The ‘Ribbon’
Command or Tab Groups
The Quick access Toolbar
The Mini Toolbar
This new interface is used in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Outlook.

The Ribbon

The Microsoft Office 2010 ribbon contains tabs which give access to tools and commands, grouped together by type of task. The most commonly used commands are found on the Home tab. To hide the ribbon, press Ctrl + F1; use the same keys to see the ribbon again. Alternatively, from the dropdown arrow at the right of the Quick access Toolbar, select Minimize the Ribbon; or double-click any ribbon tab.

As well as the standard tabs, there are contextual tabs which appear when an object is displayed within a document. For example, inserting a table into a Word document automatically opens up additional Table Tools Design and Table Tools Layout tabs. When the object is no longer selected, the home tab will be displayed.

Quick access Toolbar

This is situated in the application Title Bar. By default, it contains buttons for Save, Undo and Redo commands. It can be customised to contain icons for any commands you use regularly. For example, you may want to add the Spelling button to it to save going to the Review tab to run a spell-check. To customise, click the arrow at the right end of the Quick access Toolbar. To add one of the buttons from the dropdown list to the toolbar, click on it.

To add other buttons, click Customize Quick access Toolbar. If you select More Commands, the application Options dialog box opens with Customize selected. Select the command(s) required, click Add, then OK.

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