Microsoft® Outlook® for Mac 2011 Step by Step

Modifying the Display of the Ribbon

The goal of the Microsoft Office working environment is to make working with Office documents—for example, Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 email messages—as intuitive as possible. You work with an Office document and its contents by giving commands to the application in which the document is open. All Office for Mac 2011 applications organize commands on a horizontal bar called the ribbon, which appears across the top of each application window whether or not there is an active document.

Commands are organized on task-specific tabs of the ribbon, and in feature-specific groups on each tab. In Outlook for Mac, commands ...