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The Ribbon is the state-of-the-art user interface, introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. It provides easy and quick access to software commands.
All commands are grouped into groups within the ribbon bar interface pages. In addition to groups the ribbon does have a toolbar called Quick Access Toolbar
Quick Access Toolbar
This bar, displayed within the Ribbon Bar, contains the most commonly used buttons.
You can add specific buttons from Ribbon bar to this toolbar to this bar at runtime.
You can control Quick Access Toolbar position and visibility.
It's possible to display the bar along the top or bottom edge of the Ribbon bar, or hide it .
To set bar visibility or position please select one of available options from Quick Access Toolbar drop down list menu located at Interface group.
See the mouse operations below how to add and remove buttons.
Mouse Operation
Mouse click
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Invokes the focused button functionality
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Mouse double click on a page header
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Shows or hides the ribbon bar pages
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Mouse click on a page header
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Collapses or expands the ribbon bar pages when pages are hidden
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Right mouse button click over a button on ribbon bar
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Shows a popup menu which allows to add a button to Quick Access Toolbar or set the ribbon pages visibility
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Right mouse button click over a button on quick access toolbar
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Shows a popup menu which allows to remove a button from Quick Access Toolbar or set the quick access toolbar location
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Shortcut Keys
ALT
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Switches keyboard focus to the first link of the main menu. If bars already have keyboard focus, it is removed.
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Left and Right Arrows
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Navigate left and right through bar links. If the currently selected link is in a sub-menu, pressing these keys result in navigating to the neighboring link within the owning bar and expanding its sub-menu (if it is present). In this case, the first link within the expanded sub-menu becomes focused.
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Up and Down Arrows
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Navigate up and down through links of a sub-menu or a popup menu. The down arrow key expands sub-menus when their owning links are focused
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ESC
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Closes the currently expanded sub-menu or popup menu. If a sub-menu is closed, its owning button obtains keyboard focus
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TAB
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Navigates right through buttons of a bar. If a bar is oriented vertically, navigates down through its buttons
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SHIFT+TAB
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Navigates left through buttons of a bar. If a bar is oriented vertically, navigates up through its buttons
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ENTER
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Invokes the focused button functionality. Equivalent to clicking a button.
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F10
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Shows all key shortcuts assigned to ribbon bar pages and buttons. Typing shortcut letters on keyboard invokes the focused link's functionality. Equivalent to clicking a button.
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