organ_shifter Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 Anyone else been testing this out? It's a nice preview of what's to come from MS Office. The interface is user friendly and the new/updated features are a joy to use. The Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1 offers many ease-of-use interface tweaks, such as a slider bar in the bottom of each window for zooming in and out of page views. We hope that tabbed toolbar browsing, a welcome feature within Web browsers such as Firefox, will make navigating tasks and documents easier. Each task-oriented toolbar will have only the tools you need, with visual galleries of attributes and suggested layout to eliminate guesswork. You'll be able to make changes to attributes such as font style and watch your document transform in real time. And rejoice if you've raged for eight years against Clippy. The dorky paper-clip cartoon is really dead; Office Assistant suggestions will no longer glibly interrupt your tasks. Unlike the late Clippy, a ghostly text-formatting toolbar hovers near your cursor; it fades or darkens in response to your mouse movements. Right-clicking a mouse will reveal the same task-specific menu choices as offered in the masthead banner. Those wanting to put photos in documents will enjoy Word's new image-editing skills, allowing you to crop, alter brightness and even convert images into sepia tones. We're glad that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access will finally share similar interface features. Developers will get the freedom to add their own tabs, items to tabs and gallery items to Office 12.0; and companies can build their own toolbars from scratch, if needed. Old, familiar add-ins will also work in the new Office. Users of previous versions of Office will like that Office 12.0 files are backward compatible through Office 97. Word12 Pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MttFrog13 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 What do u have to do to get hold of these beta microsoft programs like vista and office12? Does microsoft issue them only to certain people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 What do u have to do to get hold of these beta microsoft programs like vista and office12? Does microsoft issue them only to certain people? the majority of people probably just download them from bittorrent sites. honestly, i'm not really digging the new look in word. it looks naked, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 organ_shifter were did you download office 12 from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 I dont like the look of office 12 or the vista default theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 I dont like the look of office 12 or the vista default theme. i think the office 12 and vista theme are the best ever, even better then some of the things on OSX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted November 4, 2005 CID Share Posted November 4, 2005 they look new and innovative, but the other themes and stuff that come out will probably be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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