If your business has recently upgraded to a new version of Microsoft Office you may have seen a noticeable drop off in productivity from your staff.
Versions of Office up to and including 2003 all had a relatively similar layout, with dropdown menus used to access the various functions. Users had become familiar with this layout and were comfortable with where to find the commands they needed to use.
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With Office 2007 and 2010 the layout of all the Office Suite of products changed drastically with the introduction of the Ribbon. Commands are now accessed using the Ribbon, rather than the dropdown menus.
Once you know how to use it the new interface may be more intuitive, however staff that aren’t familiar with the Ribbon may have trouble finding the commands they used regularly in previous versions, leading to a drop in productivity as it takes longer to write a letter, create a presentation or spreadsheet.
To get you started here is our guide to the new Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2010.
We’ll use Word 2010 to illustrate the points but the principles are the same throughout the Office Suite of products.
There are three main components to the Ribbon
1: Tabs – each Tab relates to the core tasks you do in each of the Office Programs
2: Groups – each Group contains related commands, for example all the commands for formatting text are in the ‘Font’ group.
3: Commands – the commands allow you to carry out specific tasks like changing a font size or colour. The commands are arranged in groups.
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