Office 2007 to auto-hide the ribbon, provide tools for enterprise-wide migrations

Posted August 28, 2006 at 03:55 PM by Doug Berger

Section: Web, Downloads, Software / Applications

As we reported back in March, Microsoft’s next-gen productivity suite, Office 2007, will sport what they are calling the ribbon.  The ribbon is their attempt to change the menu bar as we know it, and to more logically place the functionality that is already built in.  Ever since people started playing with the beta version, there have been complaints of how the ribbon is far too big.  Now, Microsoft has officially stated that they will add an auto-hide feature to it so it’s less obtrusive and you can fit more content on the screen.

They’re also working on tools to help companies more easily migrate to the new Office file-formats.  Microsoft’s John Hodgson explains the demand for such a tool.

“We’ve been asked by a lot of customers to provide tools to do mass migrations,“ he said. “There will be tools that will take a million documents and migrate those to the new formats.“

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