The Office User Interface Blog is stating that the function set that will be featured in the Mini Toolbar is confirmed. The functions have been collected as the most widely used buttons and tasks available in the office suite.
- Font face
- Increase font size
- Decrease font size
- Font styles
- Format painter
- Bold
- Italics
- Center paragraph
- Font color
- Highlighting
- Increase indent
- Decrease indent
- Bullet points
Jensen Harris says:
I’m finding the updated Mini Toolbar to be a lot more useful, especially because of the indent/outdent and highlighter that I missed so much on the Beta 1 version. And I know, based on overwhelming feedback, that many people will be happy to have access to Styles as well.
I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine here in the Indianapolis area. He’s currently training to run in a marathon and is participating in a “Team-in-Training” program to help benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
I am training to participate in a marathon (yeah, 26.2 miles!) as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I’m doing this in honor of all the families and individuals who are battling cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure!
You may make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society’s mission. If you want, include the name of someone I will be running in honor of and I’ll be sure to write their name on my race jersey.
I hope you’ll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!
So, if you’re a runner (or not) and would like to help support his cause, be sure and check out his site and make a donation online.
Better solutions would not be something you’d argue about consumers wanting in their software. Who’s not interested in things being easier and more user-friendly?
My question though is are consumers really interested in more product options. I’ve been reading more and more lately about less being more and “simple” software helps you get more things done than feature loaded and bloated software. I very much believe that Microsoft has turned a page of history with the pending release of the new Office software suite of products. The new “ribbon” user interface will surely improve the experience for users. And at the same time I am embracing more “simple” applications than I have in the past.
Yet, I believe what this “more product options” is referring to is the variety of flavors the Microsoft Office system will be available in as packaged units.
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
- Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
For me, I read that list and I still couldn’t tell you which one I should look to buy. I know if I’m buying a product for home use, that’s pretty obvious, but what if I need more than that? What if I’m a business user that needs more than the Professional Plus version, but maybe not everything in what’s included in the others. I think it would make more sense to have a somewhat a la carte pricing for the various Office application options. Let’s say each application is $200 individually. Then for each additional application I purchase, I get a flat rate knocked off of it. That would allow me to mix-n-match the applications I really need for the best use of resources (read money). There would be some price variations because obviously some products are more valuable than others. But for every Microsoft application I buy, I should continue to receive a discount. Kind of like a Microsoft Frequent Shopper club.
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