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August 2nd, 2010, 11:46 GMT · By

Free Excel 2010 Ribbon/Fluent UI Guide Available

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After it released a resource designed to help customers of the latest iteration of its productivity suite get familiarized with Word, Microsoft is releasing a similar guide for Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide is now available for download free of charge. The guide is designed to help long time users of Office, but which have not tried any new versions of the product since Office 2003, to find their way around the latest version of the product.

With the introduction of Office 2007, Microsoft completely overhauled the graphical user interface, moving away from the traditional Menu style. In Office 2010, the Redmond company perfected the new look and feel associated with the Ribbon/Fluent GUI. However, users that did not make the jump to Office 2007, with find just as big of a gap in terms of the evolution of the UI when it comes down to Office 2010.

Fortunately enough, downloads such as the Microsoft Word 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide and the Microsoft Excel 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide, will make it as simple as possible for customers to embrace the 2010 versions of the two Office components.

“A visual, interactive reference guide to help you find commands in Excel 2010,” Microsoft revealed. “Use this interactive tutorial to find commands in Excel 2010. The guide is a simulation of the old menu version of Excel. Click a command in the guide to learn its new location in Excel 2010.”

Both guides are essentially Silverlight apps designed to run inside the browser. Users will need Silverlight 3 or Silverlight 4 in order to access the contents of the free Word 2010 and Excel 2010 Ribbon/Fluent UI guides. In addition to the free guides, customers can also download free trial versions of Office 2010 via the links below. The downloads are time-bombed, but they offer plenty of time for testing ahead of expiration.

Office Home and Business 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.

Office Home and Student 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download
here.

Office Professional 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download
here.

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Comment #1 by: Skynet on 02 Aug 2010, 16:09 UTC reply to this comment

Instead of making stupid guides to an unusable crap, all the morons at MS should return to the classic gui of win98 or winXP and Office 6 or Office XP.

Comment #1.1 by: Ramrod on 08 May 2012, 05:36 GMT

The Office 2010 version has excelled (excuse the pun) itself with every God-damned thing linked to every other God-damned thing so that it is a GIANT mess of random/fractured thinking. What makes it worse is that it is flooded with third party links to websites that are all trying to sell me something! Furthermore, the web sites are BADLY designed functionally and spatially (including types of fonts and use of white space), with the result that the brain goes into spasm.
A 2010 "Help" search comes up with a flood of stuff OTHER than what I keyed in. It is dramatically lacking in structure, even though left-brain technical people are supposed to be logical, rational and structured. It is like a jigsaw puzzle tipped out on the floor and no-one has the awareness or even the gumption to put it together so that someone, anyone, can see the whole picture. Or perhaps find some simple thing that they are looking for.
Words, words, words, are just the recognition of vocabulary, NOT the understanding of the subject. It has little to do with linguistic comprehension or the conveyance of useful information. It should give more attention to how the brain works.
What happened to the User Guide that used to give clear, concisely constructed, examples that were understandable. "Understandable" ..... now that's a new innovation.
The IT industry BADLY needs training in the neurology of learning. Furthermore, it could learn a lot from "neuro-marketing" in the FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) industry where it is possible to track eye movements (to determine what buyers are actually looking at and "seeing", where these activities register in the brain, AND WHAT EMOTIONS are invoked (like the current writer's RAGE at the massive time-wasting that currently exists to no useful end).
I fear for the next generation with their preoccupation with gadgets at the expense of a capacity for thinking. I recently asked a computer salesman what was 12 times 12. He "ummmed and ahhhhed" while he was looking for his calculator. After an embarrassing delay (he couldn't find his calculator), he said, "I think it is 144". God help us!
The IT industry needs serious input from the field of neurophysiology to get back to some sort of logical LOGIC.
I've spent 40 years in corporate rescue/recovery and it seems to me that, in spite of more people with higher education (I've sacked several MBAs), the capacity for thinking ain't what it used to be!

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