[IxDA Discuss] Critiquing the Office 2007 (was Re: Microsoft tolicense Office 2007 UI system)

[Daniel J. Wilson]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:


> However, finding out about an undocumented feature that allows you to
> have multiple palettes open at once takes care of that gripe.

For the Mac users out there, the trick is to hold Option while  
clicking on an Inspector tab. Yes, this really ought to be documented  
and standardized…

> Now, if they could just implement that contextual formatting...

Since a contextual formatting interface is already used for polygons  
(see attached images), I wouldn't be surprised if a future version of  
iWork includes such a thing for text and other elements.

On Nov 29, 2006 at 8:55 AM, David Malouf wrote:


> I'd loe to be in a mqc world, but my environments and my contexts  
> continue
> to be in the enterprise (for me and my users) ... For Enterise  
> comuting
> there is really no option here as Mac has ignored the enterprise and
> instead focused on personal contexts.

Apple Computer is a multi-national corporation employing nearly  
15,000 people (so says Wikipedia) and somehow the company runs  
largely on Macs.

Daniel J. Wilson
http://blog.wilsonet.com

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