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Office 12 Exposed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bread-and-butter dept.

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."

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  1. Another site by damieng · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's another site with the images:

    http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category 1015.aspx

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  2. Mirror by dr_d_19 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...here.

  3. Re:slashdotted already by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes

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  4. Re:RTFA? by strider44 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Behold! The wonders of Coral Cache!

  5. Server In Flames by lordDallan · · Score: 3, Informative

    [Rant] Is it so freaking hard to post the link as a Coral Cache link???

    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=o12previ ew1

    That's it! It's easy and would let sooo many more people see the article.[/rant]

  6. Re:I'm not an expert... by DrXym · · Score: 4, Informative
    Corrected link - apparently Slashdot doesn't like archive.org URLS.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20001203002400/http://w ww.iarchitect.com/qtime.htm

  7. Microsoft Take on the Changes by jlund · · Score: 3, Informative

    The link below has pictures as well as describes why they make the UI changes.

    Q&A: Microsoft Showcases New User Interface for Office "12" Core Applications:

    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/s ep05/09-13OfficeUI.mspx

  8. Re:Only new feature I care about by stang · · Score: 3, Informative
    can go Paste Special -> Unformatted text, but I want it by default when I hit Ctrl-V

    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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