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Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple
Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi Mark
Mark Thompson wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. Have you tried using the Document Map or OutlineView to achieve the desired result? This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Hmm, in a structured document, this would be taken care of by setting the "PageBreakBefore" property in the necessary style(s). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Unfortunately, neither the outline view nor the document map really does what
I'm wanting. The Document Map requires significantly more screen space than does a row of tabs across the top of the screen. Also, the Document Map looks directly at the heading-formatted text in the document, thus creating unnecessarily long references. For example, the header on a particular page might say 'Observations and Recommendations', but really the tab need only say something short and sweet (like on an Excel tab), such as 'Summary', something that is under my direct control. Further, if this was a book with chapters, the author might not title his chapters, but just have chapter numbers at the top of the page. A tab would give the author the ability to label his chapters for his own own navigation, while not cluttering up the document itself with a lot of unwanted text. The Outline View is good in its way as well, but it relies on drilling up and down throughout the entire document. For long documents, it isn't easy to use Outline View to bounce back and forth between sections, and its more cumbersome because we're still expanding and collapsing sections in order to keep it somewhat navigable. Much easier page navigation in Excel. I'll take your word for the "PageBreakBefore" property in a structured document. That phrase is not in the initial Help search for Word, and the extended search shows that it isn't really something that an ordinary user would get into in a typical scenario such as the one I'm describing. Yes, I understand what you're saying, but only because I'm a geek too. My wife is an administrative assistant who does basic word processing and Excel, and that would be way over the top for her. I'm just looking for basic functionality, in an already understood paradigm such as Excel tabs, that enhances productivity. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi Mark Mark Thompson wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. Have you tried using the Document Map or OutlineView to achieve the desired result? This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Hmm, in a structured document, this would be taken care of by setting the "PageBreakBefore" property in the necessary style(s). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Mark Thompson wrote:
[..] I'll take your word for the "PageBreakBefore" property in a structured document. That phrase is not in the initial Help search for Word, and the extended search shows that it isn't really something that an ordinary user would get into in a typical scenario such as the one I'm describing. Yes, I understand what you're saying, but only because I'm a geek too. My wife is an administrative assistant who does basic word processing and Excel, and that would be way over the top for her. I know what you mean. I'm not so sure that "tabs in Word" as you describe them would be so easily understandable by "ordinary users" (whatever that means :-)). I know a great deal of Excel "users" who don't have an idea what those things there are in the first place. IIRC every default Excel file has three of them; I would be very much interested in seeing statistical data from MSFT indicating in how big a percentage of all files there are still 3 tabs of which two are completely empty. I'm just looking for basic functionality, in an already understood paradigm such as Excel tabs, that enhances productivity. And I see your point. And both Document Map as well as OutlineView need time to work with. OTOH, for a spreadsheet application, it is often a lot better to separate stuff in individual tabs indeed. As long as we look at a word processor as something to create primarily printed text (read: sequential text), I'm not sure this is readily adaptable. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or
something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Mail Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Not disagreeing with your request--but there are many ways to navigate 200
pages of text besides scrolling. You can use the Browse Object to automatically jump to the next section. http://daiya.mvps.org/browseobject.htm If you have set your doc up efficiently and logically, then you can use Outline View or the Document Map to jump anywhere in the doc. http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingOLView.htm http://shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html Anyone managing 200 pages of text should certainly be using such techniques. On 10/19/06 3:33 PM, "J Hardy" wrote: I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Mail Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...d=95d683dd-07a 6-49e8-b5b0-5878bbe6f2c6&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagemen t -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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I also agree with Mark Thompson and J Hardy's suggestions. Microsoft One
Note now has this ability which is fantastic but One Note does not allow the insertion of Excel tables - which I use a lot in my word documents. I'd like to have tabs at the bottom of a word document [like in Excel] to easily split my documents up in to chapters, topics, sections etc. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "J Hardy" wrote: I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Mail Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Most requests for tabs in Word are for Document tabs (rather than 'document
part' tabs) which are not analagous to Excel worksheet tabs at all - and none of which, incidentally, I would support. At least here you are suggesting something more potentally viable. There are, however, already document navigation facilities - Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc. What more do you want? Documents can be constructed in many ways and, whilst there may be a sort of tab that suits you in a particular circumstance, would it be the same as the sort of tab that woud suit another user, or suit you in another circumstance? It often seems to me that people want all programs to provide what they perceive as being similar interfaces without appreciating the distinctions between the programs and the objects they manipulate. Excel workbooks have a relatively simple structure that lends itself to tabs. OneNote has navigation aids all round but, its notebooks are structurally different from - and, in many ways, more rigid than - Word documents, which are free flowing amorphous entities, to which you apply different structures for different purposes. Just my twopenn'orth. -- Enjoy, Tony "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" James Woodward - Brisbane wrote in message ... I also agree with Mark Thompson and J Hardy's suggestions. Microsoft One Note now has this ability which is fantastic but One Note does not allow the insertion of Excel tables - which I use a lot in my word documents. I'd like to have tabs at the bottom of a word document [like in Excel] to easily split my documents up in to chapters, topics, sections etc. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "J Hardy" wrote: I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi Tony Jollans [I assume that you are a Microsoft employee [are you?]] - In
reply to your comments: - If Microsoft think that €˜document part tabs are a great idea in One Note and Excel why do you not think that they would be a great addition to Word? - The document navigation facilities in Word that you refer to [Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc.] are not easy to use €“ simple tabs [like in One Note and Excel] would be much better [these could be toggles on and off and user defined]. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "Tony Jollans" wrote: Most requests for tabs in Word are for Document tabs (rather than 'document part' tabs) which are not analagous to Excel worksheet tabs at all - and none of which, incidentally, I would support. At least here you are suggesting something more potentally viable. There are, however, already document navigation facilities - Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc. What more do you want? Documents can be constructed in many ways and, whilst there may be a sort of tab that suits you in a particular circumstance, would it be the same as the sort of tab that woud suit another user, or suit you in another circumstance? It often seems to me that people want all programs to provide what they perceive as being similar interfaces without appreciating the distinctions between the programs and the objects they manipulate. Excel workbooks have a relatively simple structure that lends itself to tabs. OneNote has navigation aids all round but, its notebooks are structurally different from - and, in many ways, more rigid than - Word documents, which are free flowing amorphous entities, to which you apply different structures for different purposes. Just my twopenn'orth. -- Enjoy, Tony "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" James Woodward - Brisbane wrote in message ... I also agree with Mark Thompson and J Hardy's suggestions. Microsoft One Note now has this ability which is fantastic but One Note does not allow the insertion of Excel tables - which I use a lot in my word documents. I'd like to have tabs at the bottom of a word document [like in Excel] to easily split my documents up in to chapters, topics, sections etc. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "J Hardy" wrote: I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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No, I don't work for Microsoft. I have been honoured with MVP status by
Microsoft, a prerequisite for which is independence, but have no other connection with them. I have no idea what Microsoft think on this issue; my comments are purely my own opinion. Whilst I tend to agree that document navigation could be improved I do not think tabs are the way to do it. Even if they could be toggled on and off I suspect they would confuse as many people as they helped. It is not entirely clear from your original post how you would like to tab your documents: you mention chapters, topics, sections. Of those, only sections are structural components of documents and I emphasise structural because often thay have more to do with layout than content. How would you designate - and delimit - your individual components? How, when you'd done it, would it really differ from a document map (other than in its presentation as tabs)? To put it simply: simple tabs are for simple structures; Word documents are not simple structures. -- Enjoy, Tony "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" oft.com wrote in message ... Hi Tony Jollans [I assume that you are a Microsoft employee [are you?]] - In reply to your comments: - If Microsoft think that €˜document part tabs are a great idea in One Note and Excel why do you not think that they would be a great addition to Word? - The document navigation facilities in Word that you refer to [Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc.] are not easy to use €“ simple tabs [like in One Note and Excel] would be much better [these could be toggles on and off and user defined]. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "Tony Jollans" wrote: Most requests for tabs in Word are for Document tabs (rather than 'document part' tabs) which are not analagous to Excel worksheet tabs at all - and none of which, incidentally, I would support. At least here you are suggesting something more potentally viable. There are, however, already document navigation facilities - Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc. What more do you want? Documents can be constructed in many ways and, whilst there may be a sort of tab that suits you in a particular circumstance, would it be the same as the sort of tab that woud suit another user, or suit you in another circumstance? It often seems to me that people want all programs to provide what they perceive as being similar interfaces without appreciating the distinctions between the programs and the objects they manipulate. Excel workbooks have a relatively simple structure that lends itself to tabs. OneNote has navigation aids all round but, its notebooks are structurally different from - and, in many ways, more rigid than - Word documents, which are free flowing amorphous entities, to which you apply different structures for different purposes. Just my twopenn'orth. -- Enjoy, Tony "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" James Woodward - Brisbane wrote in message ... I also agree with Mark Thompson and J Hardy's suggestions. Microsoft One Note now has this ability which is fantastic but One Note does not allow the insertion of Excel tables - which I use a lot in my word documents. I'd like to have tabs at the bottom of a word document [like in Excel] to easily split my documents up in to chapters, topics, sections etc. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia "J Hardy" wrote: I agree to the tabs feature. Like Excel you would create Word books or something similar. While there are other programs to prepare manuals, etc, Word having such a big following, would allow a writer, or specifier or a manual maker, ( Authors) to divide the manual into chapters, or create a Merge withoher programs to provide cover letters, etc... I think this would be easier to teach than scrolling thru 200 plus pages of text to find information, etc. Great idea. i had an epiphany and I am glad some people are thinking the same thing. Thank you "Mark Thompson" wrote: Now that IE 7 has the concept of Tabs, and Excel has the concept of multiple Sheets in one workbook, I'd like to suggest that Word incoroporate that same functionality. It would be really nice to be able to create tabs, or "chapters", in a Word document, and to be able to move quickly and easily between chapters by clicking on their tabs, just like clicking on the tab for an Excel sheet. Chapters in a book, sections in a proposal, pages in a briefing book, I can think of several uses. Each chapter, or section, or whatever you want to call it, would have a tab across the top of the work area. This could also help with paging during printing. Perhaps an option for each tab/chapter could be "Always start printing the information on this tab at the top of a printed page". Thank you. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi James,
As with many things, someones 'great' is someone else's 'what were they thinking' There's nothing wrong with a tabbed interface (basically that's what the ribbon is g) and who knows, at this point, what the next generation might look like. Office for mac 2008 appears to have both a Ribbon and traditional toolbar and it has a tabbed 'Notebook Layout view' that you can see on the brief silent movie at http://microsoft.com/mac/products/word2008 One of the reasons given by people for not liking OneNote is that it's interface is 'all over the place' (i.e. the interface is way too busy for them ) Issues folks bring up for Word 2007 is that it has tabs instead of menus, and that the ribbon/UI already takes up too much space, so that they don't want to give up even more of their screen to document tabs (document writers tend to be looking at more of a document at a time than folks in Excel, when editing, as an example), others would gladly make space for tabs for documents or for sections. IBM/Lotus Wordpro had a tabbed interface and IBM has resurrected the Symphony name for an Office product suite you can try from http://symphony.lotus.com that IBM has said that with coming out with a product to 'add their weight' to using ODF (Oasys Open Document Format) in office files There isn't one 'Microsoft' team. It's more like General Motors products, similar base with unique features to each product to meet different perceived market needs. This is an interesting Microsoft download on using the Office 2007 application interfaces http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...572621033.aspx for folks that have Office 2007 with One Note installed, but who may not have used it or done much with it (that interface can feel 'foreign' to many folks too g). For earlier versions of Word there have been tab interface add-ins available. If you have a fast connection you can watch the presentation here on how the Office/Word 2007 interface came about and various desig ns that were rejected for this version (one of which looks a lot like the Office for Mac 2008 one g) http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...he-ribbon.aspx (you can also download the 'Story of the Ribbon' (146mb g) ============ "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" oft.com wrote in message ... Hi Tony Jollans [I assume that you are a Microsoft employee [are you?]] - In reply to your comments: - If Microsoft think that 'document part tabs' are a great idea in One Note and Excel why do you not think that they would be a great addition to Word? - The document navigation facilities in Word that you refer to [Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc.] are not easy to use - simple tabs [like in One Note and Excel] would be much better [these could be toggles on and off and user defined]. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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I watched all the demos. Pretty impressive!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi James, As with many things, someones 'great' is someone else's 'what were they thinking' There's nothing wrong with a tabbed interface (basically that's what the ribbon is g) and who knows, at this point, what the next generation might look like. Office for mac 2008 appears to have both a Ribbon and traditional toolbar and it has a tabbed 'Notebook Layout view' that you can see on the brief silent movie at http://microsoft.com/mac/products/word2008 One of the reasons given by people for not liking OneNote is that it's interface is 'all over the place' (i.e. the interface is way too busy for them ) Issues folks bring up for Word 2007 is that it has tabs instead of menus, and that the ribbon/UI already takes up too much space, so that they don't want to give up even more of their screen to document tabs (document writers tend to be looking at more of a document at a time than folks in Excel, when editing, as an example), others would gladly make space for tabs for documents or for sections. IBM/Lotus Wordpro had a tabbed interface and IBM has resurrected the Symphony name for an Office product suite you can try from http://symphony.lotus.com that IBM has said that with coming out with a product to 'add their weight' to using ODF (Oasys Open Document Format) in office files There isn't one 'Microsoft' team. It's more like General Motors products, similar base with unique features to each product to meet different perceived market needs. This is an interesting Microsoft download on using the Office 2007 application interfaces http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...572621033.aspx for folks that have Office 2007 with One Note installed, but who may not have used it or done much with it (that interface can feel 'foreign' to many folks too g). For earlier versions of Word there have been tab interface add-ins available. If you have a fast connection you can watch the presentation here on how the Office/Word 2007 interface came about and various desig ns that were rejected for this version (one of which looks a lot like the Office for Mac 2008 one g) http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...he-ribbon.aspx (you can also download the 'Story of the Ribbon' (146mb g) ============ "James Woodward - Brisbane Australia" oft.com wrote in message ... Hi Tony Jollans [I assume that you are a Microsoft employee [are you?]] - In reply to your comments: - If Microsoft think that 'document part tabs' are a great idea in One Note and Excel why do you not think that they would be a great addition to Word? - The document navigation facilities in Word that you refer to [Document Map, Outline View, Browse by Section, etc.] are not easy to use - simple tabs [like in One Note and Excel] would be much better [these could be toggles on and off and user defined]. James Woodward - Brisbane Australia -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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