Work in Access more efficiently - Microsoft Access 2013 - page 364

You can customize the ribbon in the following ways:
▪ Turn off tabs you rarely use.
▪ If you use the commands in only a few groups on each tab, remove the groups you
don't use. (The group is not removed from the program, just from its tab.)
▪ Move a predefined group by removing it from one tab and then adding it to another.
▪ Duplicate a predefined group by adding it to another tab.
▪ Create a custom group on any tab and then add commands to it. (You cannot add
commands to a predefined group.)
▪ For the ultimate in customization, create a custom tab. For example, you might want
to do this if you or the people who work with your databases use only a few com-
mands from each tab and it is inefficient to flip between them.
Don't be afraid to experiment with the ribbon to come up with the configuration that best
suits your Access databases and the type of work performed with them. For example, some-
one who only does data entry might need a different configuration than someone who cre-
ates queries to produce reports. If at any point you find that the new ribbon configuration is
harder to work with rather than easier, you can always reset everything back to the default
configuration.
TIP If you have upgraded from Access 2003 or an earlier version, you might have identified
a few commands that no longer seem to be available. A few old features have been aban-
doned, but others that people used only rarely have simply been pushed off to one side. If
you miss one of these sidelined features, you can make it a part of your Access environment
by adding it to the ribbon. You can find a list of all the commands that do not appear on
the ribbon but are still available in Access by displaying the Customize Ribbon page of the
Access Options dialog box and then clicking Commands Not In The Ribbon in the Choose
Commands From list.