Personally, I think the “ribbon” interface that comes with some programs in Microsoft’s Office 2007 makes it a lot easier to find formatting features, but folks who hate the ribbon now have another option.
Cnet blogger Dennis O’Reilly raves about the new Search Commands download from Microsoft Office Labs:
After you download and install the add-on, the Search Commands tab is added to the ribbon. Click it (or press the Windows key and Y) and type the name of the command you need.
For example, the other day I was looking for the Reveal Formatting option in Word 2007. I eventually found it under the Display tab in Word Options (off the Office button menu). It would’ve been much faster for me to simply open Search Commands, type “reveal formatting,” and enter the number that appears next to that option (”5″ in this case)…
I don’t know about the other Office Labs projects, but Search Commands is an add-on I expect will save me quite a bit of time by slicing the ribbon to ribbons.
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