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The Ribbon in Word 2010 incorporates the traditional menu approach and improves and enhances it, including an improved search and navigation experience, working in sync with others, accessing and ****enjoying documents from virtually anywhere, and adding the ability to add visual effects to a document, turn text into a chart, and more.

Word 2010 eliminates traditional menusThis is a major improvement in the user interface by Microsoft to make operations more intuitive and convenient.