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If you’ve been wanting to try out Office 2007 but can’t get your hands on it, this video comes in a close second.  Microsoft has finally decided to give us a little more info about the long awaited productivity suite with the release of a promo.  The video discusses galleries, the ribbon interface, the Office menu, live preview, and contextual tabs to be included in the software.  The Microsoft employees in the video shared that with this release of Office, the company is trying to make it so even non-power-users can become skilled at it.  Overall, I am very impressed with the simplicity of it all. 

In the video, they show Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and how they have redesigned the menu structure into what they are calling “the ribbon.” The ribbon seems to be much more logically organized than previous versions of Office.  The Live Preview feature looks rather impressive as well.  When you’re searching for the proper way to format your document, spreadsheet or presentation, you can hover over the option to get a preview of how it will look after selected.  This works for everything from selecting a font to text-wrapping a picture.  What do you think of Office 2007 and its ribbon?

Check out the video.

Via [arstechnica]

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