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The Ribbon interface in Microsoft Word. Each Ribbon element has a small icon in the corner, clicking the icon will bring up the old-style dialog box, hovering on the element shows the dialog box and, when applicaple, provides links to the relevant help page.
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Ribbon interface in hidden mode. Moving the mouse over any of the tabs will reveal the ribbon, but when you don't need it it stays out of the way providing the cleanest workspace of any office version yet. The top menu can be customized to hold all your frequent items.
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In this shot the document has a default style applied, but I've selected the first sentence and moused over the title style so that the selected text automatically shows a preview without having to apply it. Clicking the style will apply it, mousing off will leave it as it was.
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This is Word in the "blogging mode." The Ribbon elements are contextual, in this case because a picture is selected the picture tools become available. Deselecting the picture would cause those tool to hide themselves. As you might imagine the HTML output of blogging mode is somewhat bloated with inline styles, but on the brighter side the output of this simple example was at least HTML 4.0 compliant.
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Excel got a serious makeover as well, this shot shows the new conditional formatting tools and as with the previews in word, hovering over a format style give you a preview without having to commit to it. The blue bars on the sample graph are deing applied by the conditional coramt rule that the mouse is hovering over.
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Another new Excel feature, the top half shows the table header as it looks when opened, in the bottom section you can see that as you scroll down the header jumps into the cell header so you can keep track of your columns.
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Outlook doesn't have the Ribbon bar in the explorer pane, though it is used when composing new messages. New Outlook features include a live preview for other office documents which means you can read Word Excel and other files inline rather than having to open them separately. Also note the To-Do bar, in this case showing the calendar view.
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Outlook also has an improved calendar view which includes an overlay feature. Multiple calendars can be viewed on top of each other which makes it easy to see where schedules overlap and conflict.
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Powerpoint uses Ribbon and sports a number of new themes to keep Al Gore busy. As with the rest of the Ribbon apps there are live previews of formatting changes.
Outlook in three pane mode
Outlook calendar overlay
One Note
WORD
What is the official status of PDF support in Word?
We worked with Adobe and decided
OUTLOOK:
Why didn't outlook get the ribbon interface?
Outlook is a very different beast, it's more of an explorere that helps you get to your information. The menus weren't under the same constraints and there wasn't the "ui" crunch
Outlook's
The explorer view doesn't use a ribbon but most of the document creation tools do, for instance creating a new email will give you a window with a ribbon.
Inline previewer spec has been published so
It comes full circle you blog in word and consume in Outlook.
GENERAL:
Why did you drop outlook from the student teacher edition?
The home and student audience tends to use web-based email so we opted for onenone over outlook
The office offering "calenders can be published on the web, we feel that al lot of the editting and rich tasks, the client side experience is still the best for our users
Groove is a way for people working a project to collaberate
We tried hard to do as much integration as possible
the search integration in outlook is superior when used in vista
vista explorer will show document text in the preview pane.
very similar.
What percentage of MS revenue is from Office?
what are microsoft's goals with Office 2007?
Unlocking the power of the user interface and helping users create professional looking content.
What are you calling the "toolbar"?
Paul Coleman, Senior Marketing Manager.
Ribbon represents
we felt that windows and toolbars were no longer working for us. Office 2003 has 1500 features and we sort of ran out of space to add new features
2003 left users in an impossible situation for trying to discover new features.
9 out of 10 feature requests we got were already in the product, people just couldn't find them.
we wanted something that was browseable the ribbon has tabs composed of groups and inside each group is a set of commands
Live preview
500 million users office
Excel has a new page layout view that
many of the dialogue features have been changed to be more graphical as opposed to answering questions
All the office 2003 keyboard shortcuts still work, but there's a new feature called keytips
help content has ben integrated into tooltips, often with sample graphics and direct link to help entries
We did some studies that showed that the number of features core was 23 for 2003 and whith the new ribbon interface that number has climbed to 60 or 70.
There a collapsed ribbon mode view hides the subpanes
Word: Blogging features puts word in special bloggin mode
word supports most popular blogging tools
contextual spell check
23 60 and 70 core features
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