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Images: Office 12’s makeover

By Bill Detwiler September 19, 2005, 9:00 PM PDT Bill Detwiler on Twitter billdetwiler

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In Office 12, Word replaces the standard toolbar with a “ribbon” of choices that display options directly related to editing text, while hiding unrelated options.

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Images: Office 12’s makeover

With Office 12, Microsoft will offers up “galleries,” which are essentially templates of changes that a user might want to make. The idea is to allow people to make common changes, say, narrowing a document’s margins, with a single click.

Images: Office 12’s makeover

In addition to the generic ribbons in Office 12, Microsoft also has a series of contextual menus that come up only when doing a specific task, in this case building a graphic from within Word.

Images: Office 12’s makeover

Microsoft plans to change the user interface to better fit the task a person is performing. The new look will apply to Word (shown here), PowerPoint, Excel, Access and parts of Outlook.

Images: Office 12’s makeover

In the Office 12 version of PowerPoint, Microsoft is promising that users will see contextual tabs that present specialized features as needed.

Images: Office 12’s makeover

The first test version of Office 12 is due in fall 2005, and the finished product in the second half of 2006.

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At right is a screen shot of the Excel program in Office 12.

Images: Office 12’s makeover

At right is a screen shot of the Access program in Office 12.

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