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Wrapping up the last of the series of posts where I’ve been sharing all of the toolbars from the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon toolbars. This last post is from probably one of the least used applications by the mainstream user community for Office products.

The Access 2007 application has the least amount of toolbars and functions than any of the other products, even though the application is perhaps the most powerful of the entire Office suite for customization and development power.

Access 2007 can work with and integrate with the other Office applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook. Yet with all that integration and possibility, the least amount of toolbars.

Sometimes it’s still hard to find what you’re looking for in Access though, just like the other applications. Click on the image below to see all of the Access toolbars in full-size, all together in one place.

After doing these different posts, I’m starting to feel like I should be quizzing myself on what I’m seeing and see if I can remember them all later.

Not too long ago everyone on twitter was showing their support for Iran by changing their location. There were a variety of reasons I heard of for changing your location to Tehran, but I never did. I think accurately representing your location in your twitter profile is more important than people think.

As you can see from my graphic above, people set their locations to a variety of different uses. Some people are very specific and providing city, state and zip for their location. Others just provide a city. Some people put the name of a business in their location. In many cases if you use twitter from your iPhone it will grab your GPS coordinates and use that to specify your location.

Regardless of what you set your location to, realize there’s a very valid use for being accurate with that location. I will frequently look for people to follow based on their location. I want to hear from people that live in the same city as I do. It’s a way to keep tabs on what’s going on around me.

The other use is that sometimes people could be looking for knowledgeable users in specific industries or a variety of skill sets. You could be losing business opportunities by not being identified as located in the city people may be searching for some help.

As part of the ongoing series of putting all of the Office 2007 toolbars into one place so you can see everything at once. Here’s the group of toolbars from the ribbon for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

The interesting thing I noticed about many of the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 ribbon toolbars is that there’s lots of unused space on a few different toolbars.

It makes me wonder if the divisions and separation of tools and features are really due to the functionality of each fitting into a group or if there’s another reason.

Would it have made more sense to combine some features currently found on multiple toolbars to a single toolbar, thus reducing the different places you’d have to look for the item.

Perhaps the side of the spectrum is there are more features coming for PowerPoint that will expand these toolbars even more? I was at a conference a week or so ago and the presenter from Microsoft was using the new version of PowerPoint that’s not on the market yet. Other than some new animations, I didn’t notice anything completely new.

Here’s the image to view all the toolbars in one place.