New features:
User interface
The new user interface (UI), officially known as
Fluent User Interface,
has been implemented in the core Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and in the item inspector used to create or edit individual items in Outlook. These applications have been selected for the UI overhaul because they center around document authoring.
The rest of the applications in the suite will also be upgraded to the new UI in subsequent versions.
The default font used in this edition is Calibri. Original prototypes of the new user interface were revealed at MIX 2008 in Las Vegas.
Office button
Office Button in Microsoft PowerPoint
The Office 2007 button, located on the top-left of the window, replaces the File menu and provides access to functionality common across all Office applications, including opening, saving, printing, and sharing a file. It can also close the application. Users can also choose color schemes for the interface. A notable accessibility improvement is that the Office button follows Fitt's law.
Ribbon
Main article: Ribbon (computing)
The
Ribbon, a panel that houses a fixed arrangement of command buttons and icons, organizes commands as a set of
tabs, each grouping relevant commands. The Ribbon is present in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Access 2007 and some Outlook 2007 windows. The Ribbon is not user customizable in Office 2007. Each application has a different set of tabs which expose the functionality that application offers. For example, while Excel has a tab for the graphing capabilities, Word does not; instead it has tabs to control the formatting of a text document. Within each tab, various related options may be grouped together. The
Ribbon is designed to make the features of the application more discoverable and accessible with fewer mouse clicks
as compared to the menu-based UI used prior to Office 2007. However, many users feel that the existing menus should have been left alone.
An online survey reports the ribbon menu has decreased productivity by an average of 20% for users.
Moving the mouse scroll wheel while on any of the tabs on the ribbon cycles—through the tabs. The Ribbon can be minimized by double clicking the active section's title, such as the Home text in the picture below.
Without third party add-ins, it is not possible to remove the Ribbon, modify it, or replace it with menus with the normal Office 2007 functions. There are third party add-ins which can be purchased that can bring menus and toolbars to Office 2007 as well as add-ins which allow users to customize the Ribbon commands. Office 2010 does allow user customization of the ribbon out of the box.
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