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Saturday, May 13, 2017 – Permalink –

Update the FUI Ribbon

Let the add-ins begin

It is said that the Office 2007 Graphical User Interface Ribbon cannot be as easily changed or modified like it has been in previous versions.

This may be partially true, but not all is lost.

Here is some information from the equine's mouth:

Learn how to customize the Ribbon user interface (UI) in the 2007+ Microsoft Office release. Also learn how new features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007+ Microsoft Office System support RAD development of Ribbon customization. (40 printed pages)

Customizing the Office Ribbon

Monsieurs MS also have a downloadable spreadsheets with the Control IDs. There are files for 2003 as well.

Lists of Control IDs

2007 Office System Add-In: Icons Gallery

2013 Icons Gallery

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Labels: Customize, Reference, Ribbon, Tips, Tutorials

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Monday, October 17, 2016 – Permalink –

Custom QAT

Access additions

Applications put most of the most-used commands on the Home tab's Ribbon, not everything is there. You may want to add Close, Close All, or Print commands, for example.

In the upper Left corner is the Quick Access Tool bar.

To update the QAT:
Click the down-pointing arrow to the right of the QAT.
Choose any common commands (New, Close, Print, etc.) by checking the option.

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Labels: Customize, General, Reference, Ribbon, Shortcuts, Tips, Tutorials

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Thursday, October 06, 2016 – Permalink –

Command Reference

2003-2007-2010-2016
Those of you that are just now making the switch to the Ribbon world, will find this valuable.

ComputerWorld.com

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016 – Permalink –

Hidden Maco Names and Shortcuts

Revealed

Word has built in macros to perform routine actions such as using the Format Painter to copy formatting.

Rather than trying to guess the name or look up the shortcut keys, use this seldom mentioned trick to find toolbar macro names.

Press the three key combination of Ctrl, Alt, and + (the plus sign on the Numbers keypad).

The mouse pointer changes to a 4-leaf clover.

Click on a toolbar icon. Word will display a form revealing the macro name and the assigned shortcuts.

(It works the same way in 2007+)

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Labels: General, Macro, Reference, Ribbon, Shortcuts, Tips

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Tuesday, November 03, 2015 – Permalink –

How to Burn Out Your Audiance

Audience antagonizers

What are the three most annoying things about bad PowerPoint presentations?

"According to the survey, conducted on the CommunicateUsingTechnology.com web site, the most common complaints are:

Speakers reading their slides to the audience (71.7% of respondents cited this item),

Text on the slides is too small to be readable (47.7%)

Visuals too complex (36.9%) and

Full sentences were used instead of bullet points (48.6%).

This survey is one of the first to investigate how presentations are seen from the audience point of view. Of those respondents who see 100 or more presentations per year, more than half said that 50% or more of the presentations they see suffer from one or more of the annoying traits. The costs of poor presentations are in the time wasted by those who attended and in the extra work that must be done to communicate the intended message again since it was not done properly the first time."

CommunicateUsingTechnology.com:
Annoying PowerPoint Survey

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