Find Commands Easily in Word 2007's Ribbon

The Word 2007 ribbon: You either love it or hate it. There's apparently no middle ground. But even if you like the way the ribbon exposes Word features that were previously very hard to find, the fact remains that it's sometimes frustratingly difficult to track down something that you used to know exactly how to find in Word 2003. Well, fret no more. You can now have the best of both worlds.

Microsoft Office Labs offers a free Word add-in called Search Commands that puts a search box in the ribbon. Just type what you're looking for, and the ribbon displays only those commands that match your search phrase.

Search Commands is pretty awesome. You can ignore it and use the ribbon normally when you know how to find what you need. But when you can't remember how to change text to Sentence Case, just type "case" and the ribbon will look like this:

And you don't have to know the exact text to search for, either. In the example above, for example, I could also have typed "caps." This is a feature that should have come built into Word. You should absolutely install it today.