Navigating the Office 12 User Interface
The new ribbon interface in Office 12 — er, Office 2007 — is really handy, but it can be frustrating, too. It’s context-sensitive, meaning it shows you the commands relative to what you’re doing, but that makes it hard to browse around and look at ever command. So sometimes I’ve wasted minutes looking for a command that I knew well in previous versions of Office — “where did that command go?”
Turns out there’s a tool for exactly this situation, publicly available on Microsoft.com. It lets you click on a command in the old menus, and it shows you exactly where that command appears in the new interface. Click here to check it out.
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