Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Office 12 Interface Preview
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Word 12 Development Environment 
Save Dialog Mock-Up 
.Save Dialog 
Office 12 Customizable File Menu 
Frontpage 12 Interface (Dated) 
Outlook 12 Interface 
Outlook 12 Compose Message 
Word & Excel 12 Button-Bars 
Click the thumbnails to enlarge the images.
As you can see, Microsoft is trying to do away with the "legacy" menu bar. In newer Vista builds the menu bar is turned off by default (although it can be reactivated temporarily by pressing alt). In Office 12, the menus have been replaced with tab-like buttons. For instance, a click of the Write button will open and display buttons, bars and shortcuts pertinent to writing, such as font face, alignment, and line spacing. Clicking insert tab will hide all the Write buttons, and will introduce buttons and options for inserting tables, images, charts, word art, etc... The only "legacy" menu item that remains is the file menu, but it has completely been redesigned. The file menu now looks like the Windows XP start menu and can be customized as well. More to come... Stay tuned!
source:http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1
