Category: Business/Investing Publisher: Leanne Lucas
ISBN-10: 0646545582
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 188
Copyright: Dec 2010
ISBN-13: 9780646545585
Make a ‘seamless’, exasperation-free transition to Office 2010. This portable, concise, user-friendly book tells you exactly what you need to know to locate familiar commands within the ribbon interface. Stop searching and keep working.
If you already know what you can do with Microsoft Office, and you would like to make a 'seamless' transition of Office 2010, this book is your answer.
Written by an experienced user, for experienced users (or just fast learners), this book gets straight to the heart of the matter - i.e. where to locate familiar commands within the ribbon interface.
With concise, consistent instruction format, and a comprehensive index, you are able to swiftly locate exactly what you need to know. No more downtime while you search for familiar commands, you can embrace Office 2010 without interruption to your normal workflow.
This book enables you to:
restore the permanent toolbar for frequently-used commands
restore processes to one-click operations
customise Microsoft Office programs to your needs
understand why your 'old' documents don't always behave as you expect, and tells you what to do about it
Instructions are designed to deliver you to 'familiar turf', from where you can proceed unaided.
The author has created a compact, truly portable (A5), user-friendly book (coil-bound to lie flat and generally containing a full set of instructions within an open-page spread) which addresses the core issue in upgrading to Office 2010. In short, this is a book which can be kept always at hand and which will end up with many dog-ears and signs of wear - in other words, a book which will be used, rather than just filling a space on a bookshelf.
Excerpt
(SAMPLE TEXT IN PDF FORMAT - WITH FULL FORMATTING AND ICON GRAPHICS IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE)
USING THE INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS BOOK ARE SET OUT AS FOLLOWS:
• Ribbon Name first (Click the relevant ribbon tab, if necessary, to activate that ribbon)
• Section Name second
• Icon/command, to be clicked third (with an accompanying picture of the relevant icon)
Instructions are typically worded as shown below:
On the Home ribbon, in the Paragraph section, Click
Instructions take you to the point where you are in ‘familiar territory’ and can proceed on your own. Although there are often many ways to achieve the same result, to maintain simplicity, only one method is provided for each feature.
RIBBON LAYOUT
If you’re already ‘feeling your way’ with Office 2007 or Office 2010, you will know that menus have been replaced by ‘ribbons’ – the command area of the screen now looks like the (shortened) picture below.
Terminology used in the instructions in this book is shown below (with circles and arrows indicating the items to which each term refers):
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN - ESSENTIALS …..
With the ribbon format of Office 2010, many essential commands are no longer permanently accessible on the work screen:
• gone are the always-visible toolbars providing one-click access to commands such as Print, Print Preview, Open, Spellcheck, Find, etc.
• gone is the Menu format which, over the years, has become second-nature to ‘seasoned users’
As you switch back and forth between the ribbons while you work, the commands of the ribbon you accessed most recently are the ones showing at the top of the screen. This means that if, for example, you want to apply bullet points, unless the Home ribbon is active, accessing this feature becomes a two step process, (clicking the Home tab and then clicking the Bullet Point icon), instead of a one click operation.
Some ribbon tabs are not always shown – only appearing ‘magically’ when a graphic object (e.g. a picture) is activated, or when a particular feature is being used (e.g. tables or charts). This can cause some consternation if your brain is working ahead of your mouse clicks, and you haven’t yet clicked on the graphic object, or table, etc. you wish to edit.
It is, however, possible to customize the workscreen to suit your particular needs, so that the commands you use frequently are available on a toolbar which is always visible, regardless of which ribbon is currently active. To place commands permanently at your disposal, you need to customize the Quick Access Toolbar which is originally positioned towards the top left of the screen, and contains only the Save, Undo and Redo commands
Customising the Quick Access Toolbar, as outlined in the following section, will make your ‘Office life’ easier.
It is also possible to customize the ribbons to suit your particular needs. Check under ‘Customise’ in the index to find the instructions which point you in that direction.
