Word Ribbon Remodeling

I created a new home Habitat in MS Word. I included only the commands I wanted, and more importantly, I got rid of many. The two that bugged me the most on the previous Ribbon Home tab were (1) Increase and Decrease Font (which I rarely use) being located directly next to Change Case (which I sometimes use but I’ve relocated it the toolbar) and (2) the Shading command, which I have mistaken for Text Highlight more times than I care to count. Gone!

In my new Habitat tab, I kept Paste because I long ago reassigned the Ctrl-V command to be Paste Special with no formatting. I use the Paste that includes formatting far less frequently but still enough to keep it handy. I don’t need Cut and Copy on the Ribbon because I always use keystrokes for those.

My font commands are in the Emperor group (all the groups are named after penguins, of course). Customize Keyboard and AutoCorrect Options were in my Frequent tab before, but I've put them in the Macaroni group in the Habitat and added View Macros (thanks, Crystal!) so I don't need to go to the Developer tab to open it. I use AutoCorrect like other people use a text expander program, with some keystrokes replaced by full sentences. These change frequently with my projects. Customize Keyboard is for assigning keystrokes to my macros, which Word inexplicably makes the user go to an entirely different and hard-to-find space to do. (I usually go back to the macro description and note the keystroke. MS needs to get its act together.)

The Quick Access Toolbar has buttons representing a combination of commands and macro shortcuts I use a lot. Two or three of those are repeats from the main Ribbon, but I added them because I need them even when I'm in show-tabs-only mode.

My favorites on the toolbar are the three macros starting with the teal blue square: Find next highlight, find next bold, and find next italics. That last has saved me many an italic comma or period that ought to be roman. There’s a button for en dash, another for em dash, and one for Chicago-style ellipses (space dot space dot space dot [where those three spaces are nonbreaking spaces], followed by a regular space). The butterfly macro highlights a selection in purple and then returns highlight color back to yellow. I most often use this for cross references, which I return to do all in one pass. I'm keeping the other custom tab (Frequent) and the Home tab until I determine if I'm missing anything.

This is my kind of remodeling!

P.S. I’ve tried to call these Word features by their proper names, complete with capitalization, but I’ve drawn the line at capitalizing “tab.”