Microsoft Office includes features geared towards collaboration and data sharing. These appear and disappear like normal tooltips, and replace normal tooltips in many areas. Some of them also use diagrams or pictures. One feature of the new help system is the extensive use of Super Tooltips which explains in about one paragraph what each function performs. In Microsoft Office, the Office Assistants have been completely removed because of the much improved help system. Microsoft backs an open-source effort to support OpenDocument in Office, as well as earlier versions, and also through a converter add-in for other programs, which works by having third-party programs call a command-line utility. Office documents can also be exported as XPS documents, via another free plug-in that is also a separate download. However, due to legal objections from Adobe Systems, Office will not have PDF support out of the box, but rather as a separate free download. If not, you will have to download a free converter from Microsoft for older versions of Word to be able to open documents created in the new format. You can save your Word documents in the old format so that they will still be usable in previous versions of Word. Files containing macros are saved with the extension. Word documents without macro extensions are now saved using a. It also appears above the right-click menu when a user right-clicks on a selection of words. Since the Mini Toolbar is automatically shown, it remains semi-transparent until the mouse pointer is situated on the control, in order to allow an almost-unobstructed view of what is beneath it. The purpose of this feature is to provide easy access to the most-used formatting commands without requiring a right-mouse-button click as was necessary in older versions of the software. The new "Mini Toolbar" is a type of context menu that is automatically shown by default when text is selected. This allows users to have a preview of how the option would affect the appearance of the object, without actually applying it. The temporary formatting is removed when the mouse pointer is moved from the button. Microsoft Office also introduces a feature called "Live Preview", which temporarily applies formatting on the focused text or object, when any formatting button is moused-over. Contextual tabs remain hidden when the object it works on are not selected. Similarly, focusing on a table exposes table-related options in a specific tab. For example, selecting a picture brings up the Pictures tab, which presents options for dealing with the picture. The Ribbon is designed to make the features of the application more discoverable and accessible with fewer mouse clicks as compared to the menu-based UI used until Office Since January 23, Microsoft has used the name Microsoft Office Fluent to describe the Ribbon interface, as well as other interface additions, in Microsoft Office Some tabs, called Contextual Tabs, appear only when certain objects are selected.Ĭontextual Tabs expose functionality specific only to the object with focus. Within each tab, various related options may be grouped together. Instead it has tabs to control the formatting of the document. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.
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