MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

One more thing about the ribbon

One thing about the new GUI that absolutely will cause confusion is that the change isn't standard. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access all have the new GUI. Outlook has the old menus on the main screen, the ribbon when you open or create an email. OneNote, Publisher, Visio and Project 2007 betas all have the old style menus. Microsoft has, obviously, created a distinction between it's standard Office Suite and add-on programs like Visio and OneNote, but they can't possible tell me that they don't have plenty of customers using Word, Outlook and Visio. Or OneNote, Word and Excel. Think it might have been nice to have a consistent GUI across those programs, like we've had for years and years?

Tags: