Office 2010 Time to Jump In
1. Interactive Guide to Menu and toolbar commands for Office 2010
2. Printable list of Office 2010 commands and buttons
3. Ribbon Hero – an Educational game
Following is a brief description of each.
Interactive Guide to Menu and toolbar commands for Office 2010
Click on a command in an Office 2003 window and the screen flips around to show you the location of the same feature in Office 2010.
Office 2003 view
Office 2010 view
This very slick tool is broken down by application and is perfect if you are looking for a menu or toolbar feature. If the feature you are looking for is in a dialog box, you will have to dig deeper, elsewhere. For example, in the Word guide I tried to find out how to insert a section break. In Word 2003, it is Insert, Break. When I clicked that, it took me to the Insert, Page Break feature on the ribbon in 2010. It left me wondering where the Section Break was, and it is not next to the Page Break. Which brought me to the next, free, Office 2010 resource!
Printable list of Office 2010 commands and buttons
Each Office program has a different Excel spreadsheet with tabs for each of the 2003 menu choices. Browse by menu or use Find to look for a specific command. The Office 2003 command is listed in the first column and the Office 2010 function is located in the second. If it existed in 2003, you should be able to find it here. If you are not familiar with the Find feature in Excel, click Options, then choose Workbook in the Within field to search all tabs, not just the current tab.
Ribbon Hero – an Educational game
Ribbon Hero is a tutorial that brought out my competitive nature. Once installed, it is a button at the end of the ribbon in Office 2010. In each application it challenges you to a series of tasks and gives you points, if you can complete all or part of the task. If you have NO idea where to find something, it gives you hints. After playing with this for about ½ hour I did learn a few new things. That is where its value lies – to show you features that you might find useful. Since the tasks are short, you can spend 5 minutes to get through a task or two, then stop until next time. I’m looking forward to learning some new things, particularly in Excel.
What have you found helpful as you get up to speed with Office 2010?
