How to Search Commands in Office 2007
Although Office 2007 is designed to be quite user friendly, you may find yourselves lost when you switch to it from Office 2003. One of the main problems that you may come across is searching for commands on the Office 2007 Ribbon.
Search Commands is an Office 2007 add-in that enables you to quickly search for those commands. Let’s see how to add and use this feature in Office 2007.
One way to install Search Commands add-on is to join the Office Labs Analytics program when you install Office 2007. When you do this a new command called “Search Commands” is added to the Ribbon.
You can also choose to install the add-on later. For this, you first need to download Search Commands Add-on from OfficeLabs website and then install it on your computer.
After the installation is complete, you will see that a new tab with the name “Search Commands” added to your Office 2007 applications.
Now that the Search Command is added to the Office 2007 Ribbon, let’s see a few examples to work with it.
Example 1: Want to add lists in your Word 2007 document.
Type “list” in the “Search” box and all commands related to it will be displayed on the search bar.
Browse through and select the command you are looking for.
Example 2: Can Word 2007 really save documents as PDF file.
Yes, it can. Just type “save as pdf” in the Search box, and the command that will enable you to do it will be displayed for you.
Example 3: List the commands related to creating a master slide in PowerPoint 2007.
Type “master” and have all commands related to working with master slides displayed on the Ribbon.
Example 4: Don’t know how to go about working with slides in PowerPoint 2007.
Just type “slide” in the Search box on the Search Command tab and gain easy access to all 60 commands related to slides.
Example 5: Easily access commands related to using Formulas in Excel worksheets.
You can see that more 350 commands have been detected. You can use the “Previous and Next” buttons on the Search bar to scroll through all these commands and access the command that you want to use.
Search Commands is a nice Office 2007 add-on that significantly simplifies the task of using Office 2007 Ribbon. With this add-on in place, you don’t have to waste your time looking for commands anymore.
So that’s how you do that! This was driving me bonkers until I found your site. Thank you very much!
Thank you! I hate office 2007 – I have it on one computer and when I have to use it, I’m constantly spending more time tryign to figure out how to do what I want to do than on actual work. I think this may help.
I was using Office 2007 for a while but I couldn’t get a feel for it. I’m thinking about trying out Open Office or Pages I think. Maybe your search commands add-on can help me.
just like ms to fix something after publishing it….
i for one dont mind the office 07 suite and use it every day, its excel that annoys my the most
why cant seperate excel “work books” be dragged about the desktop like individual word docs can
“Example 2: Can Word 2007 really save documents as PDF file.”
Hi there,
great post, thanks for sharing! I just wanted to add that it’s safer to print as PDF instead of saving as PDF. This way you’ll be sure you won’t have problems with the fonts or images you use. After printing, you can check the document with the preflight option, just to make sure there are no errors.
Hi there, this search command add-on is really helpful for me and obviously for others who will use it.
Thankfully the new Office on Windows 7 has made Office a bit more user friendly again… Office Vista etc and even 2007 are a bit over kill though. Cool search tips
I didn’t know about this function. Actually, I use only Word, Excel and Power Point in their basic functions. Saving a document as PDF! that is new and very useful to me!
Thank you so much.