Wrapping up the last of the series of posts where I’ve been sharing all of the toolbars from the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon toolbars. This last post is from probably one of the least used applications by the mainstream user community for Office products.

The Access 2007 application has the least amount of toolbars and functions than any of the other products, even though the application is perhaps the most powerful of the entire Office suite for customization and development power.
Access 2007 can work with and integrate with the other Office applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft …read more

As part of the ongoing series of putting all of the Office 2007 toolbars into one place so you can see everything at once. Here’s the group of toolbars from the ribbon for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

The interesting thing I noticed about many of the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 ribbon toolbars is that there’s lots of unused space on a few different toolbars.
It makes me wonder if the divisions and separation of tools and features are really due to the functionality of each fitting into a group or if there’s another reason.
Would it have made more sense to combine some features currently found …read more

Frequently I find myself looking for one of the tools on a Microsoft Office 2007 application. The problem is I know I’ve seen it, I just can’t remember which “ribbon” in the new Office interface is the one holding the tool I’m looking for or needing.

Sometimes the challenge is that you know you saw it somewhere but you start looking at each ribbon set one-by-one and you forget what you’ve seen where and what else was around when you saw it. I think it’s similar to the same feeling you have when you’re lost and everything starts looking the same, …read more