new ribbon ui

Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
... _Posted February 13, 05:00 am Pacific Time_ Attendees at the Microsoft 2008 Office System Developer Conference this week are leveraging development capabilities in Office System, but cite issues such as getting used to the new ribbon-based Fluent UI in the 2007 Office release.

it would be nice that the background of the text area can be ...
Personally I think the new UI is such a massive improvement, I have found it easy to use straight away. A quick glance through each of the tabs was all I needed. I appreciate others are finding it not an improvement. If you need guidance on how to find something or achieve something with the new ribbon,

Ribbons versus Toolbars
but I can't see myself developing a Ribbon for my own Access applications. I've never really used a menu in my runtime apps anyhow so not a big deal for me. First of all, it takes up too much screen real estate. In Word and Excel Jensen Harris, the MS person who worked on the ribbon UI, had an excellent blog

ribbon functionality ideas
People also complained about the new ribbon interface in Office 2007 but it's actually an improvement and that style has found its way into other software. Although the UI in something like Zonealarm is important, it is not as critical as a makeover on the UI of a user centric application such as a web browser.

i hate ribbon -- bring the menus back!
That's a big part of why OneNote 2007 doesn't have the new ribbon UI that the rest of the Office family has. Under the circumstances I'm quite pleased with what they've chosen to focus their efforts on for this version of the product. Internal hyperlinks, far better table support, excellent shared notebook support,

Outlook 2007 BCM - Custom Send Button
But I'm able to answer your questions in part because I'm not fighting the new UI and because many of the old keyboard shortcuts still work in 2007. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu

New Office (2007) menus -- can we change them back to exactly ...
Microsoft, however, claims to have come up with something better and more intuitive - the Ribbon. Such a claim begs the question: "If the new user interface of Office 2007 is so intuitive, why does it have a learning curve?" And it does have a learning curve - a very steep learning curve.

Trouble saving xlsm worbook in Excel 2007
My suggestion is that a new ribbon be worn as a protest the President's veto of the partial term abortion ban and the Senate's failure to override that veto. The ribbon would be red Seinfeld -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6ui iQCVAgUBMkIIyrTTUY7wnHzhAQH1bwP/QzOGbW1jGiiSaVw1Ci2MMbW52a36GPzi/9wDPEpBgrYf

[Rival] Office 2007 and Windows Vista Ruin Christmas
I found Jensen very persuasive, and it's easy to get excited about the new UI, not so easy to get used to it, though! Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:38:00 -0500 from JoAnn Paules <jl_pau...@hotNOSPAMmail.com>: about the new ribbon interface. Since it's not going to change, the time to start learning is now.

What was MS thinking?
However, for those of us who have developed extensive customizations to facilitate our productivity, the new ribbon UI is like strapping the training wheels on the bicycles in the Tour de France. Exactly. As a professional translator I sometimes spend up to 10 hours a day in front of my computer using a version of

The look of Word 2007
Give the new Ribbon UI at least a week-long chance (of actually working I gave it two already and it is attrocious. This is not 'innovation' but rather "let's change things and then claim it is better." with it only) and have non-power-users try it as well. The biggest problem the UI has is that it is simply a

IE7 user interface..
For Outlook 2007 to add UI to an Inspector (open item) you would use the new Ribbon, which is in the Office object model. There are samples of creating ribbon UI for Outlook Inspectors in the sections on Office and Outlook development at MSDN. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute

Oritron NPD3117 Networked DVD Player VFD problem
The virus mirrors the fake Christmas and New Year messages seen in previous months. at the Microsoft 2008 Office System Developer Conference this week are leveraging development capabilities in Office System, but cite issues such as getting used to the new ribbon-based Fluent UI in the 2007 Office release.

The Future might be Flex 2
A lot of what was changed (mostly of course for the new ribbon apps) was based on usage data (SQM, or in the 2003 UI it's called "Customer Experience Power users get screwed everywhere in Office 2007, especially in the new ribbon UI. If there is something that would only affect a tiny percentage of the users

Development Processes of the Consummate SAS Developer
I've installed the Office 2007 Beta2 release and I'm working to modify a VBA application to use the new UI Ribbon. In the new Ribbon UI I've set a callback using the getimage XML attribute. The callback has the following VBA signature sub GetImage(control as IRibbonControl, ByRef image) and I'm able to retrieve

Monthly Microsoft Patch Hides Tricky IE 7 Download; Changes to ...
It would not have been difficult for them to include the ability for users to choose their UI, classic File menu or the new Ribbon. But for some reason, they chose not to do this. I see it as a plus for OOo, because organizations will want an up-to-date alternative as they see their users shocked by the new UI,

Should I upgrade to Outlook 2007?
MS spent millions on developing the new UI. It's really a huge effort (2+ years, something like 40-50 people if I remember correctly?). If Microsoft would give you old-style menus in 2007, then a very small number of users would only use the new ribbon (humans are by nature averse to change).

Classic interface for word 2007
New technology is not always good technology, at least not for everyone. Are you aware of any third-party applications that will us to modify the Ribbon UI to allow for the revert to NORMAL view? Patrick Schmid has a very useful add-in that allows considerable customization of the new Ribbon UI, but the ribbon bar

Can the Office 2007 menus be repalced with the classic menus?
... of most benefit is the new Office 12 look and feel including the new ribbon bar. justin "Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]" <p...@droopyeyes.no.com.spam> It is the new UI approach in Longhorn, but will it be part of Windows or will it be part of dotnet X? I want to take this kind of approach but I don't

ClearType & UI Font Question?
Is this new UI going to change the way you do things? Ed "Jean-Guy Marcil" <NoSpam@LeaveMeAlone> wrote in message news:%23HKMd7QiGHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... Ed was telling us: Ed nous racontait que : I've been reading a few things about the new Ribbon UI coming up. Currently, I have some macros which create