This document provides 10 quick tips to get the most from Microsoft Office. It outlines ways to customize the Office ribbon and quick access toolbar, backup customizations, find commands from older versions of Office, and insert things like horizontal lines, pictures, and screenshots. It also discusses how to center objects and add security to documents.
10 quick tips to get the most from microsoft office
1. 10 Quick Tips to Get the Most from Microsoft Office
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2. 1. Create a Customized Tab on the Office 2010 Ribbon
Office 2007 included the new
Ribbon interface which some
people found awkward and
confusing to use. However, Office
2010 added a new feature that
allows you to create your own
custom tabs on the Ribbon. You can
group specific commands that you
use most often on your custom tabs
for faster and easier document
creation and editing.
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3. 2. Save Time by Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
in Office 2007
The previous tip showed
you how to add a custom tab
so you can group often-used
commands in one place. You
can further customize the
Office interface by adding
commands to the Quick
Access Toolbar. This
provides one-click access to
your most-used commands.
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4. 3. How to Backup and Restore Your Office 2010 Ribbon
and Quick Access Toolbar Customizations
Now, that you learned how to
create custom tabs on the Office
2010 Ribbon and how to
customize the Quick Access
Toolbar, you can backup both the
Ribbon and the Quick Access
Toolbar so you can import the
same customizations into Office
2010 on another computer.
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5. 4. How to Find Office 2003 Commands in Office 2010
Have you just upgraded to Office
2010 from Office 2003? If you
skipped over Office 2007, you may
be having trouble locating your
favorite commands from Office
2003 on the new Ribbon interface.
Microsoft created and interactive
guide to the new Ribbon interface
in Office 2010 to help smooth the
transition from Office 2003 to
Office 2010.
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6. 5. Bring Office 2003 Menus Back to 2010 with UBitMenu
The previous tip showed you how
you can make the transition from Office
2003 to the new Ribbon interface in
Office 2010 and 2007 easier.
However, if you really miss the familiar
menus and toolbars from Office
2003, you can get them back in Office
2010. The following article shows you
how to use a tool, called UBitMenu, to
bring back the Office 2003 menus and
toolbars in Office 2010, and even how
to hide the extra Ribbon tabs to make
Office 2010 more like Office 2003.
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7. 6. Insert Horizontal Lines in Word Documents Quickly
Generally, when inserting a
horizontal line in Word, you need to
access the Borders and Shading
dialog box. However, there is a
quicker way of inserting different
styles of horizontal lines. The
following article shows you the
keyboard shortcuts for inserting the
different styles of horizontal lines to
save you time.
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8. 7. How to Crop Pictures in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2010
When inserting a picture into
your Office documents, you
might need to crop it to show
only a specific part of the
picture and remove other areas.
You can do this directly in
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The following article shows
you how to crop pictures in
Word, but the method is the
same in Excel and PowerPoint.
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9. 8. Center Pictures and Other Objects in Office 2007 & 2010
Once you insert your picture and
crop it, if needed, it may be
difficult to get your picture
perfectly centered in your
document. The following article
shows you how to center pictures
and other objects in Word and
PowerPoint 2010; however, the
method is nearly identical in 2007.
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10. 9. How to Take Screenshots with Word 2010
If you’re working on a document
in Word 2010 that includes
screenshots, you can easily use
Word to create the
screenshots, rather than another
third-party tool, thus saving you
time. The following article shows
you how to use Word to take
screenshots and paste them directly
into your document.
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11. 10. Add Security to Your Important Documents in Office
2010
If you’re sharing Office 2010
documents with other employees
through your company’s network, you
might want to add security to the
documents so only certain employees
can access the documents. You can also
apply encryption to Excel and
PowerPoint documents. However, you
can only restrict editing in Word and
Excel.
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