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The ribbon is a user interface concept first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. It is, in essence, a tabbed set of toolbars.

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How to disable ribbon keytips?

Since Microsoft Office 2007, ribbon toolbar has been added. When I press Alt key, ribbon keytips will show. How can I disable keytips showing? So that when I press Alt key, I want nothing to happen, ...
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Windows 8 Remember ribbon settings

Windows 8 explorer has ribbon interface and I'm frequently using it. The features I use most, located in View tab and Home tab. I never used Share tab. But if I'm setting something in View tab, ...
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Where is missing searchbar left-hand panel in MS Access 2007?

I recently opened a reporting database in Access 2007 that appears to be missing a search bar in the database objects panel. I'm familiar with MS Access, but not the new ribbon functionality. How do ...
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Reordering styles in Microsoft Word 2007

I copied one document into another document and it seems that Heading 1 is now moved to a different location int he toolbar (ribbon). Now heading 2 till 6 are visible and on the next line (which I ...
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Word 2010 ribbon tab cycling

Is there a hotkey (or possibility to set one) for tabbing through those ribbon tabs (Home, Insert, etc) in Word 2010? By "tabbing through" I mean similar to the behavior of cycling through open tabs ...
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Word as editor in Outlook 2010

Word is the default editor for Outklook messages. How can I make the Word ribbons (which may include custom functions) visible when editing a message?
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Excel 2010 - how do you clear a RibbonX dropDown control?

I'm struggling to clear a dropDown selection via VBA code in Excel 2010. The reason I want to do this is because the onAction event doesn't fire if you click the same item consecutively without ...
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How do I bring back the ribbon in Office 2010?

The ribbon in Excel 2010 appears when I click on Home or Insert or one of the other tabs, but disappears again when I go back to editing my document. I'd like it to always be visible - how can I get ...
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Restore OneNote Ribbon from backup

I made a full system backup (drive image) of my machine, then re-installed everything. I went from Windows 7 Home-Premium to Professional. I can't figure out what files I need to restore from the ...
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How can I define template specific Ribbons in Word 2010?

In older versions of Microsoft Word one could define menus and toolbars and store them in templates. They only appeared when the corresponding templates are loaded. I want the same effect with Ribbons ...
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Excel 2010: Home tab is blank

A user on our network has somehow managed to empty out their home tab in Excel. I've not had much luck finding a fix on Google. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? The tab cannot be expanded ...
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In Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, how can I manually purge mails that are marked for deletion in IMAP folders?

As described in the header I can not find the button for purging mails manually that I have marked for deletion in an IMAP folder. The Problem only occours in Outlook 2010
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How do I set existing Word 2010 Fluent Ribbon buttons to a fixed size, rather than having them automatically scaled to "large"?

I'm reconfiguring a ribbon in Word 2010 to include existing buttons, but they are large in the UI. How do I make them small icons?
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Speeding Up the Ribbon in Microsoft Office

Has anyone found a Registry Hack or some other way of making the ribbon in Microsoft Office faster? I'm talking about load time. On every computer I've ever used Office 2007 or 2010 there is a slight ...
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Outlook 2007 does not have a ribbon

I have outlook 2007 installed (12.0.6514.5000) on my work computer. I just installed Bowie to allow integration with outlook and TFS. Most of the features for that plugin are based on the ribbon. ...
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Are menus dead?

I downloaded Office 2010 and have been fiddling with Excel and found the UI to be excellent. However, unless I'm missing it, menus are nowhere to be found. Are they done?
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