The New UI in Office 2007

Office 2007 New User Interface from Percy Parakh on Vimeo.

Welcome to the New User Interface in Word 2007. Gone are the Toolbars and Drop Down Menus, which have now been replaced by the Ribbon, and Tabs. A New Office Button has been added in Word 2007. Clicking on the button, reveals all the commands that were previously under the file menu, in Office 2003.

Why did Microsoft have to change the user-interface in Office 2007? Well, when Microsoft first came out with Word 1.0, it had about 100 comands. After all the versions of Office, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, and now Office 2007, Microsoft has ended up with about 1500 commands. So the old user-interface was just not adequate for easily displaying all the commands, as a lot of them were being buried deep in Drop Down Menus, and Dialog boxes.

So Microsoft Came up with this new UI, that makes it a lot easier to use Office. Most folks agree that this is the most significant improvement to Office that has been made by Microsoft. A Podcast of the above movie is available for Download in I-Tunes, or on a Video I-Pod