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SKI — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:38:22 GMT

Hello,

Do you know where I can download the office ui and or point me in the right direction. I am trying to build applications using the office ui. I am a beginner. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

SKI

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aJanuary — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:44:30 GMT

Is it just me, or does both the audio and the video play very slowly? I've tried with the IE inline player and WMP. Other videos play fine :S

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lars — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:47:15 GMT

Cool stuff, and awsome video quality. Please make more videos in hi-res!

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Cammie — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:07:06 GMT

I just can't wait to use this new software it looks cool, MICROSOFT YOU ROCK!!!!:D:D

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Wonsil — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:37:22 GMT

One of the things that users always ask after importing data into a spreadsheet, setting up some extra tabs with certain views, and then formatting it perfectly for the boss, "How can I add next month's data and keep all of the graphs/formatting/views the same without doing all of this work again?"

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

jcwelch — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:35:02 GMT

willk wrote:
Actually, concerning the editing surface for composing mail in Outlook12:

Our editing surface will be the Word, regardless of what's installed. If the Word12 product is installed in additon to Outlook12, the you'll get the full Word editing experience in Outlook email.

If Word12 is not installed, then some functionality won't be available when composing email, but you'll still have more functionality than was available using "trident" in Office2003.

Also, in 12, Word will always be the rendering surface for email you've received, even in the Reading Pane.

The Word team has worked hard to make sure we have high fidelity for rendering and composing. It's been truly amazing to see this great work.

One more nugget: Outlook12 now uses Word as its editor for Outlook Meeting Requests, Appointments, Contacts, etc.

Okay, third try...once again, the joy of Channel 9's craptacular post editing tools rises to the plate and hits a home run.

What about winmail.dat attachments when you read Outlook email in other mailers on other platforms? Please tell me that entire concept has finally been shot in the head.

How about people who just want to use plain text for 90% of their emails? Will setting that default be easier

What about the inane dialogs and wizards? Will common tasks like rules and delegation be able to be accomplished without 345345 levels of dialogs and mandatory wizards? Maybe the O12 team can talk to the Entourage team for "How to do things without infinite layers of dialog boxes".

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

ramida — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:53:31 GMT

Who copied who? Dreamweaver MX or Office 12? This "new" Office 12 GUI has already been implemented in Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX!

ramida

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

ManuD — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:46:02 GMT

What about COM addins?

What about REAL integration between the office products respective object models (e.g. Outlook and Word integration, ...)?

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

epoxymoose — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:34:10 GMT

Looks fairly promising to me. I'm looking forward to trying it out with my own two hands.

There's one thing I'd like to see specifically addressed, and I hope an insider can chime in with some info. I'm a keyboard user; I go for long periods of time without using the mouse. In many applications, things that pop up automatically and respond to mouse cursor position never go away if the mouse happens to be too close to them. I'm concerned that the Floatie will stay in place if it happens to appear underneath my (unused) mouse cursor. One thing that really steams my pork buns is having to stop what I'm doing to move the mouse cursor so some ill-informed popup goes away.

I'd also like to see a way to pop up and navigate the Floatie from the keyboard, but that's secondary.

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

babyhoigs — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:10:46 GMT

Office 12, This is Amazing! I love the new UI and layout. Its gonna save alot of time creating all those documents and to scale to see huge doc's this is just better.

The design and speed of functionality is freaking amazing, I wanna get my hands on this product pre-Launch.

It has all the features and functions of easy that we've been crying out for years, am stoked about this one.

Bring it on Office 12 Team.

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

Petrus — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:12:12 GMT

The Office 12 GUI looks amazing. We cannot wait to play with the real stuff, so we decided to hack our own application a bit in order to remove the menu and replace the GUI with something which looks and behaves very much like the Office 12 ribbon.

For those who would like to check our revamped application too, it is available here. See the associated blog entries here.

And here is a screen shot:

Pierre :)

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

MikeKelly — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:34:15 GMT

paulmorriss wrote:
In Excel, if I copy a cell and then type in another cell, will it forget what I've copied when I come to paste it? None of the other office products do that.

Try doing CTRL-C/CTRL-C to copy. This puts it in the persistent, multi-clip Office clipboard. It's then there to paste back - in fact, you can copy multiple things to the Office clipboard using this and paste them as you like, not just in order.

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

Togora — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:21:44 GMT

There is no pleasing some people. First you want all the bells and whistles and the next you complain about being offered the latest features. Must I remind you that Microsoft is a company and as such needs to maintain their market share while keeping the share holders happy. If like Wordperfect they do not provide the customer with new features then another company will and everyone will move over to that product. As an individual with an independant mind you are not forced to adopt the new office suite. So save your bucks and wait for something else to come along, quietly though!

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

Togora — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:39:36 GMT

This is one super version of Office. It would seem that the team have taken most things into account with regards to the features. One thing that will not change I am sure will be the massive price tag that is normally attached to this product. With luck this will change thus encouraging more people to take up a legal copy. As we are dedicated users of Microsoft products and loyal followers of Mr Gates you will be offered us a copy of the new office suite at a very low price, yes? ;-)

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

skatterbrain — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:22:43 GMT

ashortridge wrote:

How does the new Office 12 "know" what I need at any particular time? End-users are already tired of having new windows/new bits of info appear or change in front of their eyes based on what I like to call “Microsoft Intuitionism.”...

MS collected usage info for months in order to determine what users are doing and trying to do. At least they tried. I'm so sick of everyone complaining but not offering any solutions. If MS sat back and didn't change anything, everyone complains. If they change something, everyone complains. Some people just like to complain because it gives them something to do. The rest of us are happy with change. Life changes, so does software. Hence the "soft" in software. It was intended to be changable with less effort than "hard"ware. If it wasn't, it would have been burned into a chip and soldered to the circuit board for all eternity.

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

ashortridge — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:49:59 GMT

Improvement on functionality is one thing, changing the UI like changing your underwear is quite another.

How does the new Office 12 "know" what I need at any particular time? End-users are already tired of having new windows/new bits of info appear or change in front of their eyes based on what I like to call “Microsoft Intuitionism.”

There was a time when I enjoyed new versions of Microsoft products. It was play-time. Now I have grown tired of major changes in UIs. Even if this is all going to be better, I can't help but complain...

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

Vinsky1579 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:59:54 GMT

I can't wait to test the Beta version of Office 12:D

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

skatterbrain — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:06:31 GMT

Has anyone seen my jaw on the floor anywhere? I'm still looking for it. Fantastic!

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

aeberhar — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:24:41 GMT

An answer to feature bloat and a reason to upgrade in its own right! Excellent job!

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freney — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:16:35 GMT

Excellent, I like the new UI and I think it can be very helpful to the user. Other than the UI, I think there are three main topics that I would like to see improve in Office 12

1) Word Styles: most people don't know they exist or what they are useful for. Every time my thesis text went for a review, my advisor would create titles using the Normal style and then making it Bold, changing Font Size… I hope it will be very intuitive for the user how to make formatting choices and how to structure a well formatted document. How about including a few tutorials?

2) MathML (and PlotML, ChemML, etc.): more and more people are moving away from LaTeX for scientific publications (although I worked for my thesis project on a Unix machine, I was required to write the thesis in Word because this way it is easier to review the paper without moving from the PDF output to the source code…). However, the Insert Equation command and even the full Equation Editor are not the best choice: it is virtually impossible to search equations and these are treated like images, making it very hard to do a good formatting job. If including all these extensions is not possible, it should be very easy to implement them with plug-ins.

3) More easily customizable cross-references: it took me a long time to find out how to format multiple cross-references (for example "Figure 1 and Figure 2" to show as "Figure 1 and 2") and it took me even longer to actually do it. This should be much more intuitive and easy to do…

4) Better support for inserting figures in vector form. The EPS filter is far from perfect (try making an EPS figure with Illustrator CS and importing it into Word 2003, it will not show up no matter what you do, unless you save the file as an EPS for Illustrator 3). It would be great if one could include native formats from popular graphic applications (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc.).

4) More statistical functions in Excel and a way to save diagrams as figures to be edited in a graphic application, please!

This is simply a list I made from my personal experience and I hope it will be helpful to someone. Thank you for reading it.

Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

OrchidPop — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:46:43 GMT

Wow...this was amazing! Brought tears to my eyes many times.

I wonder how keyword help will be integrated, since it seems to have left the top right on the command bar. And this led to a question: hopefully they will integrate in searching documents (speaking mostly to Word) into the ribbon to make that a more fluid operation.

Another person put out a good question: it seems like styles have been deprecated, although they might have become a variation of the templates that she talked about.