Customize the Office Menu to your liking.

Office 2010

The Offi ce Menu 2010 off ers many

features, but often not where you want

it. However, you can customize the

menu to your style of working.

 

From version 2010 onwards,
you can set up the menu in all Offi ce
applications individually. To do so, open
‘File | Options’ and click on ‘Customize
Ribbon’ from the options displayed on
the left.
You can even customize the standard
commands to a certain extent. To do so,
select ‘All Tabs’ in both the combo-box
sets. The section ‘Main Tab’ defi nes the
available tabs. Individual commands
are organized into groups and to display

You can add, remove and rearrange menu items in

the Office ribbon with ease.

them, click on the plus sign in front of
the relevant tabs. You can then move the
selected group by a simple drag-and anddrop
action. But before that, you will have
to create a new group, as you cannot
add a command to the existing groups.
Creating a new group is fairly simple; all
you have to do is right-click at the desired
place and then click on ‘New Group’. You
can even rename the group that you have created. For example, in Excel, the
group ‘Macros’ is in the tab ‘View’. For
immediate access, you can move this to
the ‘Start’ tab.