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Office 2010 beta Impressions: Word

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Office 2010 beta Impressions: Word

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I have to say, I really like what Microsoft has done with Office 2010 so far.  Better across the table.

The Outlook update is much welcome (and much needed).

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

For the people having problems to learn the Office UI, Office Labs have released "Ribbon Hero", a game to learn how to use the Ribbon UI:

http://lostgarden.com/2010/01/ribbon-hero-turns-learning-office-into.html

Very interesting post for people who work on UI and usability :)

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

... I'm not a poweruser, so maybe I say a nonsense, but there seem to be several views in Word (print, reading, web, outline and draft), aren't those the ones you are referring to?
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Nope, Normal view is gone. It was the default view for 11 versions of Word, but now the default is Print Layout. The new Draft view is almost as good as Normal was, but it's odd-feeling and I have to do so much twiddling of headers and footers these days that I hardly ever use it.

...Very interesting post for people who work on UI and usability
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It's encouraging to see a UI designer scoff the "Don't make me think" line, and a training toy might be a good idea for many folks.

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