Comments on: Early Impressions of Office 2007 http://www.sodaware.net/blog/2006/05/early-impressions-of-office-2007/ Adventures in shareware. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Phil Newton http://www.sodaware.net/blog/2006/05/early-impressions-of-office-2007/#comment-586 Phil Newton Fri, 26 May 2006 21:39:01 +0000 http://www.sodaware.net/blog/2006/05/early-impressions-of-office-2007/#comment-586 It's not as hit-and-miss as it sounds. There's a lot of improvements, and most of the negative elements are just remnants from the old versions of Office. They just stand out a lot more because of all the other big changes. The best way I can describe the Ribbon is as a tabbed toolbar. Instead of digging through menus to find the feature you want, you can find them pretty quickly on the Ribbon. The icons are laid out much clearer, and a lot of existing features such as tables of contents and headers/footers are much easier to find and use. There's some good pictures on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/03/09/547281.aspx" rel="nofollow">Jensen's Blog</a>, such as this <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/jensenh/images/547376/original.aspx" rel="nofollow">screenshot of Word 2007</a>. It’s not as hit-and-miss as it sounds. There’s a lot of improvements, and most of the negative elements are just remnants from the old versions of Office. They just stand out a lot more because of all the other big changes.

The best way I can describe the Ribbon is as a tabbed toolbar. Instead of digging through menus to find the feature you want, you can find them pretty quickly on the Ribbon. The icons are laid out much clearer, and a lot of existing features such as tables of contents and headers/footers are much easier to find and use.

There’s some good pictures on Jensen’s Blog, such as this screenshot of Word 2007.

]]> By: James http://www.sodaware.net/blog/2006/05/early-impressions-of-office-2007/#comment-585 James Fri, 26 May 2006 19:54:55 +0000 http://www.sodaware.net/blog/2006/05/early-impressions-of-office-2007/#comment-585 It sounds like a very hit-and-miss package. My experience with the previous Office package has been excellent so far, so I'm reluctant to upgrade. I'm intrigued by the idea of the Ribbon though - what exactly is it? It sounds like a very hit-and-miss package. My experience with the previous Office package has been excellent so far, so I’m reluctant to upgrade. I’m intrigued by the idea of the Ribbon though - what exactly is it?

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