See where 'Write' is highlighted? That dark area below it is the toolbar associated with it. Click on 'Insert' and it changes to another toolbar.
And the only menu is File.
Definitely an improvement. No more distinguishing between items in those "wordy" menus. Now I only have to distinguish the command I want from a group of tiny little picture boxes.
You know what gets on my nuts? When I don't know what a button does and I have to hover and wait. I hate the milisecond wait, especially when I have to find a command hidden behind several buttons. I recognize that I would hate it if it came up instantly as well, because the buttons I need that feature for are the minority. I'd like to bring it up with an Option+click or something like that. fn would make more sense, really.
Nice concept but I still prefer the Office 2000 UI because I do not use any of the "advanced" features that this UI is trying to put out in the open, and vertical space is wasted with the way the toolbar is laid out.
Well, there's still OpenOffice.org with the old-style MS Office-like UI. I suspect a lot of people are gonna go for it - not a great amount, but they're gonna pick up some here and there.
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Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself
Wonder what the Mac version will look like? (takers anyone?)
I'll be first in line for candy Office 12 goodness.
No menus.
Seriously.
They got rid of them. Those words across the top access toolbars, like tabs.
Yup, the toolbars are now modal, and all menu item = verb methodology is out the window.
Ain't it KEWL!?
Idjits.
Originally posted by Kickaha
They got rid of them. Those words across the top access toolbars, like tabs.
Yup, the toolbars are now modal, and all menu item = verb methodology is out the window.
I don't get the new paradigm. You mean that the cluttered Word toolbar will change each time you select a different "menu"?
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See where 'Write' is highlighted? That dark area below it is the toolbar associated with it. Click on 'Insert' and it changes to another toolbar.
And the only menu is File.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Yup.
See where 'Write' is highlighted? That dark area below it is the toolbar associated with it. Click on 'Insert' and it changes to another toolbar.
And the only menu is File.
Definitely an improvement. No more distinguishing between items in those "wordy" menus. Now I only have to distinguish the command I want from a group of tiny little picture boxes.
Nice.
--B
Originally posted by Kickaha
No one ever claimed the MS UI folks were smart.
They fix the unbroken.©
You know what gets on my nuts? When I don't know what a button does and I have to hover and wait. I hate the milisecond wait, especially when I have to find a command hidden behind several buttons. I recognize that I would hate it if it came up instantly as well, because the buttons I need that feature for are the minority. I'd like to bring it up with an Option+click or something like that. fn would make more sense, really.
--B
And to be honest, the 'classic' Word UI is precisely why I *haven't* migrated to OpenOffice. It's still horrid.
Very Intuitive©. Like Miró.
--B
a better overall experience.
(welll.. sometimes prettier, but always as irritating, so no)
a better ui?
(no)
more user interface/ human-computer interaction research?
(what research?)
original ideas?
(no. "just copy apple" seems to be the mantra at redmond)
a secure, stable operating system?
(hmmm. definitely not)
*sigh* WTF.
And to be honest, the 'classic' Word UI is precisely why I *haven't* migrated to OpenOffice. It's still horrid.
i tried my best to use openOffice. i really really tried. but it is/was *shudder* unspeakably ugly