

With a few clicks, you can use the Office ribbon editor to adjust which tabs show, or even create your own tab with the tools you use most. For example, the “Review” tab doesn’t contain a button to mark a document up with digital ink. However, while these default categories clearly made sense to the designer, they may not make sense to you. All other Office components such as Excel and PowerPoint and most of many modern Windows Applications use a ribbon interface. For ease of use, there are ribbon tabs, which break up these commands into different sections, and groups within that.

To put it simply, the Microsoft Word ribbon is a UI element at the top of your document that provides access to most of its tools, which Microsoft calls “Commands”. Though many are familiar with the interface, fewer realize that you can actually customize the ribbon in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.īefore we show you how to use the Office ribbon editor to achieve this customization, let’s quickly cover what the ribbon is, how it works, and why you might want to change things up.
