As I mentioned, we were recently forced to upgrade to Office 2007 at work. I have my first legitimate grip. Yes, I think Office 2007 is a pain to use when coming from years of experience with previous versions of Office. I also think the ribbon bar takes up a lot of screen real estate. Oh, and each application is significantly slower to load than previous version.
All that aside, my first true complaint is with the title bar of the applications. The title bars do not use standard Windows colors for the title bars of an application. For instance, the default color for a title bar in Windows XP is bright blue when active and light blue when inactive. This gives you an immediate clue as to which application has the focus. Office 2007 applications use an even lighter shade of blue than the inactive windows color, with much less color deviation between applications with focus or without.
This breaks standard user interface guidelines… guidelines that Microsoft wrote. This is just plain wrong.
July 3, 2008 at 6:47 am |
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