Some MS Office users were a bit disappointed with the Menu Ribbon, introduced in 2007, which they found to be cumbersome and confusing. Today we’ll look at one very useful feature in Office 2010 – the ability to create your own tabs with a specific set of commands to make working with documents as easy as possible.
Create a custom tab
We will show the entire procedure using Microsoft Word as an example, but you can create custom tabs in any other Office application in the same way. To do this, right-click on the Ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon (Ribbon setup).
A dialog box will open Word Options (Word Options), here you can manage numerous application settings.
Since we want to create a new custom tab, click the button New Tab (Create tab).
Give her a name…
Now just drag the commands you need from the list on the left side of the window to the new group you created on the right side of the window.
All existing commands are available to you. Drop down menu Choose commands from (Select Commands), You can select a suitable group of commands or show all commands at once.
That’s it… you now have a custom tab with the commands you use most often. This will make your work as productive as possible. In this example, we didn’t add many commands, but you can place as many commands as you need on the tab. In addition, you can create several more tabs with other sets of commands.
The tab you create will only be available in the application in which you created it. For example, if you have created a tab in Microsoft Word, it will not appear in Excel because the command sets are different for different applications. If you need a custom tab in another Office application, you will need to create it in that application.
Another interesting feature is the export of settings in order to later use them on another computer or transfer them to a colleague. To export settings, go to the menu Customize the Ribbon (Customize Ribbon), on the bottom right, click Import / Export (Import and Export), and then Export all customizations (Export all settings). Then save the file to your hard drive.
To transfer settings to another computer, go to the Ribbon settings again, click Import customizations file (Import settings file) and in the browser window that opens, find the file that you exported.
You will be prompted to confirm that you want to import the settings…
After confirmation, you will see your settings installed on another computer. This is very convenient when you work on different computers during the day and want to have the tabs you already know at hand.
If you find yourself using the same set of commands all the time throughout the day, creating a custom tab will help make accessing them faster.