In the coming weeks and months, you might find that the icons have changed. Microsoft is testing a new simplified look and feel for the ribbon, which is where you click to select fonts, save documents ...

Many people are still angry at Microsoft for eliminating the traditional menus in Word 2007, but I think that objectively, the ribbon is superior. It doesn't take long to find your away around, and ...

Are you tired of digging through Microsoft Word's cluttered toolbar to find the features you need? I was toountil I customized the toolbar to suit my workflow. Now, every command I need is just a ...

Not all of the tools on the Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon are where you’d expect to find them, and some Word 2007 tools didn’t make it to the Ribbon at all. Luckily you can customize the Ribbon and ...

Today, Microsoft announced a bunch of design changes to its Office applications, the most major changes that the suite of apps has seen since the Office 2016 apps; possibly before that, depending on ...

The Office Fluent UI changes the desktop paradigm -- and opinion is mixed as to whether that's a good thing Microsoft’s Office 2007, and to a lesser extent Vista, is bringing a radical change to the ...

Last month, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced Office:Mac 2011 and posted some screen shots of its future user interface. I finally got around to looking at them. Sorry to say, the ...

Microsoft has given its infamous Office ribbon a much simpler, much less cluttered look as part of its interface redesign for Office.com and Office 365 applications. The tech giant updated the element ...

A simplified ribbon leads the way for a billion users A simplified ribbon leads the way for a billion users is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, ...

If you’re one of the billion-plus people who employ Microsoft’s Office software each month, you may start noticing some changes. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new updates for Word, Excel, ...

Keyboard shortcuts are like diets or new year’s resolutions. We sincerely want to keep up with them but often fall back on old habits — in this case, mousing around and clicking the day way. Lately ...