One really positive thing about the Ribbon was that it exposed every command in a Microsoft Office program to a keyboard shortcut. Yes, in earlier versions, mos

One really positive thing about the Ribbon was that it exposed every command in a Microsoft Office program to a keyboard shortcut. Yes, in earlier versions, most had a keyboard shortcut, but some commands only appeared in toolbars that only showed in certain situations and were never mapped to a keyboard stroke. Now in the ribbon, every button that you can see has a keyboard shortcut.