Reference Sheets for Getting Used to the Microsoft Office Ribbon
This Microsoft Excel Menu to Ribbon Reference Sheet Template acts as a lookup table for you to locate where tools are in Microsoft Office's ribbon system, by listing them under the menu you used to find them under in earlier versions of Office.
Similar sheets are available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Project, SharePoint, InfoPath, and Visio, all of which can be accessed through the same link above.
Thank you for considering using these as a digital reference to reduce the environmental impact of printing.
This resource was created in the form of Excel templates, so if you would like to print them out, you would open them in Excel and print them from Excel, but keep in mind that each program will have a separate tab for each menu meaning you will be printing up to ten pages per program.
Further Background on These Sheets:
A great debate evolved among long-time office users with the inception of the new Ribbon, which first appeared in Office 2007 to replace the traditional menus.
Obviously, the ribbon was intended as a Graphical User Interface approach as opposed to drop-down menu. Yet one of the key complaints against the ribbon has been that things are hard to find despite all the pretty icons.
Whether you love or hate the ribbon system, it is here to stay for now as evidenced by Microsoft's latest version, Office 2013. In an effort to help users who may find their organization moving into a newer version that has the Ribbon, Microsoft has therefore created some Menu to Ribbon Reference Sheets.
The sheets allow you to look up the tool as though you were clicking into it the way you are used to, under the menu system. Then, the reference sheet guides you where to find it on the ribbon by referring to the menu then the group name, which is found below icon sets on the menu (on Office 2010's Home menu, for example, the group names are Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, Editing).
You may also want to try a fun system Microsoft created a few years ago: the Office Ribbon Game & Other Learning Resources. Also, once you are more comfortable with the ribbon in general, consider making it your own by Customizing the Microsoft Office Ribbon.
Hopefully this eases some of the pain you may be feeling with the menu to ribbon transition!
Similar sheets are available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Project, SharePoint, InfoPath, and Visio, all of which can be accessed through the same link above.
Thank you for considering using these as a digital reference to reduce the environmental impact of printing.
This resource was created in the form of Excel templates, so if you would like to print them out, you would open them in Excel and print them from Excel, but keep in mind that each program will have a separate tab for each menu meaning you will be printing up to ten pages per program.
Further Background on These Sheets:
A great debate evolved among long-time office users with the inception of the new Ribbon, which first appeared in Office 2007 to replace the traditional menus.
Obviously, the ribbon was intended as a Graphical User Interface approach as opposed to drop-down menu. Yet one of the key complaints against the ribbon has been that things are hard to find despite all the pretty icons.
Whether you love or hate the ribbon system, it is here to stay for now as evidenced by Microsoft's latest version, Office 2013. In an effort to help users who may find their organization moving into a newer version that has the Ribbon, Microsoft has therefore created some Menu to Ribbon Reference Sheets.
The sheets allow you to look up the tool as though you were clicking into it the way you are used to, under the menu system. Then, the reference sheet guides you where to find it on the ribbon by referring to the menu then the group name, which is found below icon sets on the menu (on Office 2010's Home menu, for example, the group names are Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, Editing).
You may also want to try a fun system Microsoft created a few years ago: the Office Ribbon Game & Other Learning Resources. Also, once you are more comfortable with the ribbon in general, consider making it your own by Customizing the Microsoft Office Ribbon.
Hopefully this eases some of the pain you may be feeling with the menu to ribbon transition!
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