Microsoft® Word 2010 Ribbon

Microsoft Word 2010 is a popular word processor from Microsoft. It enables you to create, edit and share content in a variety of formats. Microsoft Word 2010 is integrated with a ribbon interface. Ribbon is designed to make it even quicker and easier to perform professional document authoring tasks. It includes a number of themes which allows you to change the entire look of your document with a few mouse clicks. The building blocks of Microsoft Word 2010 gives you the opportunity to create reusable content, helping you to cut downtime spent on creation. It comes with a mini toolbar which offers commands that you probably want to use. If you select some text and point the cursor at it, a mini toolbar appears.

• Ribbon feature
• Need to customize Ribbon
• Entry points to Ribbon customization

Ribbon feature

Ribbon is an enhanced feature in Microsoft Word 2010. This feature was introduced in Microsoft Word 2007 and got modified in Microsoft Word 2010. This is a graphical user interface. This feature replaces all traditional menus and some toolbars. Commands are used to work with this Ribbon feature. These commands are organized as a set of tabs. While opening each of the tasks in applications, the corresponding commands also will be displayed in corresponding areas.

Need to customize Ribbon

Customization is the process of adding, removing new commands of various applications. In Ribbon feature, you can add more features and unnecessary commands can be removed. Through customization, you can group some commands under the same tasks in one location. The commands you frequently work with maybe located on various tabs and it will be difficult to access those tabs. So through customization, you can avoid all these complexities.

'Customize Ribbon' and 'Options' are the two entry points to customize ribbon. To launch these two, you can either right-click on the Ribbon feature or enter them through the 'File' tab. The first thing that you need to do is to create a new tab to place all the tabs you often use. You can rename the tab with a name that reflects the commands inside it. Filters available in Microsoft Word 2010 can be used to access commonly used commands and you can arrange all of them in a newly created tab.

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