How+to+manipulate+the+Ribbon+in+Office+2007

One of the newest additions to the Office 2007 suite is the Ribbon. A good amount of people that I've talked to feel that it is to big and busy. It gives to much information at one time and is decorated to much. It is hard to navigate, espeically for first time users. It also takes up a good portion of screen space, which in itself is annoying, the old pull-down menu toolbar work better and took up less room. Office 2007 makes it clear that you cannot customize the ribbon itself, that is a true statement but you can set up the screen to your own liking and navigate it your way. Following these steps:
 * Minimize the Ribbon; this can happen 3 ways
 * double click the active/highlighted tab (i.e.home, insert, view)
 * the customize quick access toolbar has an option to minimize the ribbon
 * keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F1)


 * Recalling the Ribbon
 * double-click the needed tab
 * Ctrl+F1
 * highlight the word(s) or paragraph right mouse click: should bring up an on screen pull-down menu


 * Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
 * Once you click the Quick Access Toolbar all the commands show up on a list choose the ones you need or
 * before minimizing the Ribbon right mouse click on the commands you would like they select add to quick access toolbar
 * in customizing you can put indivdual commands (font size) or whole folders (font) which has font size, color, style: it seem pretty endless with possibilties, the quick access toolbar allows 29 to 32 item, depending on if it has a pull-down menu that you can see at one shot.


 * Ten easy to use and remember keyboard shortcuts
 * Ctrl+C = Copy
 * Crtl+V = Paste
 * Ctrl+S = Save
 * Ctrl+Z = Undo
 * Ctrl+Y = Redo
 * Ctrl+T = Table's Menu (Excel)
 * Ctrl+F1 = Minimize Ribbon
 * F7 = Spellcheck
 * Ctrl+O = Open
 * Ctrl+P = Print
 * knowing or using these keyboard shortcuts can keep the quick access toolbar a little cleaned up and with commands that don't have shortcuts and you would use often