Are you having problem obtaining utilized to the Ribbon interface in Office 2010? Below’s just how you can roll back the clock a bit and restore the familiar menus and toolbars from 2003.

The Office 2007 Ribbon was both praised and slammed. While several individuals felt they were much more productive with the new user interface, others really felt distressed looking for commands they had actually memorized in older versions of Office. Currently, with Office 2010, the bow interface has been brought to every application in the Office suite, and is integrated into several newer programs from Microsoft.

If you’re relocating from Office 2003, using UBitMenu permits you to add the old acquainted menus back together with the new Ribbon user interface for a simpler learning curve. Likewise, with the customizability of Office 2010, we can remove the added Ribbon tabs to make it more like 2003.

Obtain the 2003 Menus and Toolbars Back in Office 2010

Download UBitMenu (link listed below), and install as regular. Make certain every one of your Office programs are closed during the installment. This convenient utility is extremely small, as well as mounted extremely fast.

Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and also there’s now a brand-new Menu tab close to Home in the Ribbon. Now you can access all of your preferred old Office commands in the familiar food selections, as well as accessibility a number of the more recent Office functions such as SmartArt.

Below’s a close-up of the toolbar. Notification that the layout is really comparable to that of Word 2003.

You can access all of the brand-new Transitions in PowerPoint 2010 from the menu bar.

The food selection in Excel even consisted of assistance for the new PivotTable and also PivotCharts Wizard.

One trouble we observed was that the toolbars were compressed to a drop-down menu if the Office home window was much less than 870px wide. This might be a disappointment to users with low-resolution display screens, as well as you may wish to make use of the Office Apps maximized.

Get Rid of the Ribbon

Since you’ve got the old food selections back, you can remove the extra bow tabs if you ‘d like. Workplace 2010 allows you customize your bow and remove tabs, so let’s eliminate all the various other tabs with the exception of our brand-new Menu tab.

In our instance we’re making use of Word, but you can do it in Excel or PowerPoint similarly. Click the File tab as well as select Options.

At the same time, in the Menu tab, select Tools and after that Word Options.

Select Customize Ribbon on the left sidebar, then uncheck packages beside all the ribbon tabs you wish to conceal on the right. Click Ok when you’re completed.

While you’re at it, you can alter the default color pattern as well.

Keep in mind: The color modification will instantly change the color scheme in all of the Office apps, so you’ll only require to do that when.

Now the bow only has 2 tabs … the File tab for the brand-new Backstage View, and the UBitMenu tab we simply mounted. It virtually has the appearance Word 2003, yet with the brand-new features of Word 2010! You’ll require to duplicate these steps in Excel as well as PowerPoint if you intend to tailor their bow the exact same.

Final thought

If you’ve been having a difficult time getting utilized to Office 2010, UBitMenu is an excellent means to obtain aware of the brand-new interface, or just stay efficient with your old methods. We do desire it sustained the various other Office applications like OneNote as well as Outlook. That doesn’t make it an offer breaker though, it can make the knowing contour much easier in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

UBitMenu is free for individual usage, and also readily available at a really practical price for companies. If you’re using Office 2007 and not a fan of the Ribbon, UBitMenu works for it too.

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