The menu buttons and toolbars dell vostro 1310 keyboard, dell vostro 1510 keyboard on the interface design of Office 2007 were a radical and unexpected departure. MS implemented its new Fluent User Interface design 'Ribbon' to replace the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes with a new system “optimized for efficiency and discoverability”. In many ways Office 2007 in comparison to its previous iteration was like Vista to Windows XP. Some users that had gained mastery of XP found themselves unable to do things on Vista they could easily do on XP. Even power users were stumped by Office 2007's learning (or should I say re-learning) curve leading many to simply stick to their guns much in the same way many never felt compelled to upgrade to Vista.
As the saying goes 'if it ain't broke don't try to fix it'. When Microsoft released Office 2007 to succeed Office 2003, users were treated to a revolution in the popular office productivity suite's interface design as some of the core handling patterns learned by using previous iterations of the Office no longer applied. The menu buttons and toolbars on the interface design of Office 2007 were a radical and unexpected departure. MS implemented its new Fluent User Interface design 'Ribbon' to replace the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes with a new system “optimized for efficiency compaq presario cq60 keyboard, compaq presario cq61 keyboard and discoverability”. In many ways Office 2007 in comparison to its previous iteration was like Vista to Windows XP. Some users that had gained mastery of XP found themselves unable to do things on Vista they could easily do on XP. Even power users were stumped by Office 2007's learning (or should I say re-learning) curve leading many to simply stick to their guns much in the same way many never felt compelled to upgrade to Vista. Some who upgraded to the 2007 iteration even used add-ons that simulated the classical menu user interface design.
Office 2010 on the other hand is to 2007 what Windows 7 is to Vista, more evolution than revolution but executed better. 2010 offers a refinement of Office's graphical user interface design in a number of ways. For starters the Ribbon is now present across the entire Office suite and it, along with the inner content of its tabs, can be customized with the trusty right-click to the point where users can even add custom tabs tailored to suit their needs. The Office button (big and round on the top left of the user interface design) now has been given new options and extended to OneNote and Outlook. PowerPoint, Word and Excel now have added picture-editing effects and formatting à la Photoshop. One of the cool new features of Excel is Sparklines, which allows you to created data charts within a single cell. Emails in Outlook can now be viewed as threaded conversations and if asus f2 keyboard, asus f3 keyboard it ever were to get too long it can be compressed. It is also now easier to organize, categorize, and clean up mails with a few clicks. Outlook can also now customize tasks into single-click commands.
Documents created on the desktop version can now work in tandem with smartphones and web browsers via MS Office Web Apps allowing you to have easy access to your work and to invite others to collaborate and work on them from all corners of the globe no matter what the screen. Two people can now work simultaneously on a document with their changes visible like in Google Wave (provided you're both online). All these features, interface design tweaks and more work to make Office 2010 a compelling new product that looks like maintaining Microsoft’s dominance of the office productivity market.
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