August 16, 2006
One of the efficiency affordances added to Office over a decade ago is the Recent Documents list. At the bottom of the File menu in Office 2003, you’ll see your four most recently-opened documents listed; you can click one of them to open the file directly. Looking at customer data from Office 2003, it becomes clear that this is one of the most broadly-used features in all of Office.
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Recently Used Documents
August 14, 2006
Which Color When? (Part 2)
On Thursday, I wrote about how Office 2003 renders the user interface using a table of several thousand colors . Some of you commented that we’re crazy to do so much work. Perhaps, but keep in mind that I’m not just talking about the menus and toolbars; every color used in the interface of every program, from Outlook to Visio, is contained in the color table.
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Which Color When? (Part 2)
August 10, 2006
Which Color When? (Part 1)
As you probably know by now, each of the Office 2007 programs (both classic UI and new UI) have the ability to render themselves in several different color schemes. What determines which color scheme is used when, and what are the defaults? Before discussing Office 2007, let’s jump back and talk about Office 2003 for a bit of background and history
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Which Color When? (Part 1)