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

Here’s the 2nd post of all the toolbars in the Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite. First I shared all of the toolbars from Microsoft Word 2007. In this post I’ll be sharing all of the toolbars from Microsoft Excel 2007.

I love the new ribbon interface that’s available in the Microsoft Office 2007 system. Part of the reason for that is that I wasn’t too much of an excessively experienced user of the various applications.
If you were an experienced user then you’ve probably spent time looking for one of the controls and features. Sometimes they’ve put them where you would expect …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

I’ve been blogging a bit lately about how we have this unneeded fascination with the size of our technology devices. I’ve argued that for my personal preference having the smallest version of something doesn’t really matter to me, in my daily work, portable is more helpful than completely mobile.

I’m going to contradict myself a bit now with that argument. When it comes to screen real-estate, I want an effective use of space. This argument may be less of a rant on size though and more of a rant on flexibility and personal preference.
This was recently made clear to me as …read more

I don’t know how many computers I’ve seen where there’s a little application sitting in the toolbars that I’m always surprised to see. Perhaps the more surprising aspect of the thing now is that I’m still surprised when I see it. What is this application I keep seeing? The Windows Language Bar!
Every time I see the toolbar active on someone’s system I ask myself, “Are you really using this?”. I haven’t met anyone yet that actually does use it, but I always see it. That leaves me to ask the question of why? Why is it still active. Why was …read more