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Can you recommend any resources for quickly learning the Office ribbon and the new changes?

I feel completely lost after two decades of the old Office interface.

Ask How-To Geek: Learning the Office Ribbon, Booting to USB with an Old BIOS, and Snapping Windows

Sincerely,

Where the Hell is Everything?

“Where the hell is…” could possibly be the slogan for the new ribbon interface.

Ribbon Hero turns learning the new Office features and ribbon layout into a game.

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Check outhow to install and configure Ribbon Hero here.

You’ll be teaching your coworkers new tricks in no time.

It doesn’t even support booting from a USB equipment!

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The computers in question have USB ports; they just aren’t recognized during the boot process.

What can I do?

In light of that we recommend PLoP Boot Manager.

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Think of it like a boot manager for your boot manager.

Read up oncreating bootable media with PLoP Boot Manager here.

This was long before the snap-to-side features in Windows 7.

Fortunately for you the tool was extremely popular and Acer released it independently of their hardware.

Check outour guide to installing and configuring Acer GridVista here for more information.

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