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Office 12 Exposed
damieng writes "The Programmers Developer Conference (PDC) has unveiled
the user interface for Microsoft Office 12. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Aqua and brushed metal looks from Mac OS X the menus now appear to operate more like a tab popping-out the right toolbar instead of a sub-menu."
thats ugly looking, seriously. Although I'm not found of the OSX interface either.
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Here's another site with the images:
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Office 12 screenshots
1995?
IIRC Windows 1.0 was a balant ripoff of Apple Macintosh graphical OS. back in 1985...
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Why do fancy graphics always get higher priority than usability?
Err, since you haven't actually used the software yet, how do you know what level of "usability" enhancements there are? What if many/most of the ui mods were specifically to enhance usability, and they figured while they're at it, that they'd "spruce" things up as well?
Insightful, yeah, right.
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You just take the existing url www.test.com/stuff.htm and add ".nyud.net:8090"
www.test.com.nyud.net:8090/stuff.htm
Or for this site:
http://pdc.xbetas.com.nyud.net:8090/?page=o12prev
That's it! It's easy and would let sooo many more people see the article.[/rant]
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Another option...
Record a macro. Link that to the button of your your choice and add it to one of the toolbars. It's not ctrl-c/ctrl-v, but it's close.
The link below has pictures as well as describes why they make the UI changes.
s ep05/09-13OfficeUI.mspx
Q&A: Microsoft Showcases New User Interface for Office "12" Core Applications:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/
Just like on Windows XP, Documents is listed on your desktop (try clicking the up arrow on a save dialog enough, you'll get to the dekstop).
On XP, Desktop -> My Documents takes you to C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\, the user probably doesn't see their username on the desktop, but clicking on Desktop -> Documents probably takes them to "Pat's Documents".
I do agree, \Users\ is a better name for the directory than "Documents and Settings".
You can change the shortcut keys so that Ctrl-V points to Paste Special... instead of Paste. Go to Tools|Customize..., then select the Keyboard... button to display the Customize Keyboard dialog. Select Edit from the Categories list on the left side of the dialog, then select EditPasteSpecial in the Commands list on the right hand side. Switch focus to the Press new shortcut key textbox, and press Ctrl+V. Note that the dialog shows that this key sequence is currently assigned to EditPaste. Choose Assign, then close both the Customize Keyboard and the Customize dialogs.
You'll still get the Paste Special dialog, but focus is set to the format options list, and if you press U, then return, you will select Unformatted Text (or, in the worst case, Unformatted Unicode Text) and have the text pasted.
It's not as good as a simple Ctrl-V, but Ctrl-V, U, <CR> is a bit easier than switching to the mouse. Of course, you could skip this whole thing and do Alt-E, S, U, <CR>; but you already knew that.
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Don't be a fool. I'm talking about printing pages geared towards 8.5x11. The types of printers I'm working with are usually an HP 4000TN, a Laserjet 5 and a Canon Imagerunner 8500.
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Duh!
Word is a word processor, not a page layout program. Though it does provide page layout features, it's not Word's primary focus.
It always bugs me when people confuse the basic purpose of programs. If you want page layout, use Publisher, or PageMaker, or InDesign.
Word is designed to make content look good on the printer you're using, not fit a design into the limiations of your printer. Honestly, that's what Microsoft makes Publisher for, because Word isn't designed to do that.
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[Word is] designed to make your content look as good as it can on the device you're printing to, not to make the content layout as designed on the printer you're printing to.
and it even does THAT poorly! have a look at Pages and see what word processing should be like. Your (well... my) content actually does look good, rather than some ho-hum word document. (personal experience)
the same thing goes for Keynote vs PowerPoint, and I'm hoping for an Excel killer... at that point i'd delete office if i didn't have so many incoming... word documents.
Off thread topic, on overall topic... Who beat office with an ugly stick... AGAIN? O_o
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