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6. WORK YOUR WAY — FASTER AND EASIER — WITH THE ENHANCED, CUSTOMIZABLE RIBBON. The Ribbon in Office 2010 applications replaces traditional menus and toolbars with a fresh, highly visual layout of commands, organized into a set of tabs. By offering a common experience across Office applications and SharePoint 2010, the Ribbon will help you to consistently and quickly find the features you need. The Ribbon was introduced in Office 2007, when it enhanced a few of the Microsoft Office applications. It made the available commands and tools more visible and easier to access. In Office 2010, every application has the Ribbon, including OneNote 2010, Publisher 2010, InfoPath 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010 and the new Office Web Apps. The Ribbon brings new features such as the Outlook 2010 Quick Steps to your attention and is customizable, making it easy to include your firm’s standard templates. we had in Office 2007 — enables us to improve training, expectations and experiences, which is really powerful.” 7. REVIEW, COMPARE AND MANAGE DOCUMENTS WITH EASE. Office 2010 offers tighter integration and support for SharePoint 2010 functionality for enhanced document life-cycle management. Support for SharePoint features such as Check In and Check Out make it easy to control your documents. You can also easily review versions stored on the server. Features such as Drag and Drop from anywhere — even other Office applications such as Microsoft Outlook — into a workspace are supported. Word 2010 also lets you recover unsaved versions Familiar Office Ribbon as seen in Excel Web App Across applications such as PowerPoint 2010 and SharePoint Workspace 2010, the improved Ribbon enables you to access your favorite commands even more quickly. You can customize tabs or create your own to personalize the experience according to your work style. Boggis said that the Ribbon “is now very familiar to our users, which is the most important thing for us in our environment. The consistency that we get with the Ribbon now inside SharePoint — just like 10 Microsoft ILTA White Paper of recently edited files as easily as opening any file, even if you never saved the document. Its Compare and Combine tools provide enhanced options for specifying the types of changes you want to compare or merge, such as formatting and white space, along with displaying changes at the word or character level. These options can be useful if you want to expedite a reviewing process by sending separate copies of an original document to reviewers. Then, when reviewers return the documents, you can combine the changes into one document. At other times, you might want to compare two versions of a document and simply look at the differences between the two documents or take advantage of the revision features for tables. Clifford Chance had the opportunity to extensively review and provide feedback for the document management capabilities within Office 2010. Boggis noted that “Commonly, most law firms use a document comparison product that integrates within a document