| pblais@odstrategies.org 2006-12-23, 6:55 pm |
| I think you are correct Bruce. Consider the 60+ tool bars that clutter
Word. The ribbons encapsulate a whole lot of attributes in one
interface shot. The hover feature where you hover over a choice and
you suddenly see what you would get without clicking is  too.
You can get in and play with it on the MSoft web site. They have
online versions of the new Office products you can play with if you
already have a MSoft Passport login. You won't see much new in Outlook
as they fixed that one already in 2003. Word, Excel and Power Point
got all the ribbon make overs. The rest may follow later. I think it
is a great thing when you have a feature bloated product where you
easily get lost in sub menus. You'll notice virtually all but a few
menus are now gone and the plethora of tools bars are eliminated.
I saw a nice MSoft demo where they populated a Word screen with every
possible tool bar from Word 2003. It's amazing that there is any room
left for the document. It is also amazing to think most users don't
know what most of the tool bars do.
On 23 Dec 2006 00:48:54 -0500, "Bruce Johnson \(CapeSoft\)"
<bruceNOSPAM@capesoft.com> wrote:
>Microsoft (via PC Mag if I remember right) seem to think it's more
>applicable to "document" based programs, and less applicable to "data" type
>programs.
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Paul Blais - Hayes, Virginia
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