Is the Ribbon present in Office 2008 Mac
October 14, 2007
Question: Is there going to be the Ribbon (which is featured in Office 2007 for Windows) going to be present in Office 2008 for the Macintosh?
Answer: No, there will be no Ribbon for Office 2008 for the Macintosh. This is because the user interface of Office 2008 have to look alike to other Mac applications. This means that, instead of the ribbon, there will be the old menus such as ‘File’ and ‘Edit’, etc.
However, from Microsoft will apply as many Ribbon like features as they can to Mac Office 2008 and I am sure that they will make it very ribbon like meaning that there will be lots of visual icons. Although not yet released, there are some screenshots on the web that could very likely be Office 2008 Mac. Below are a screenshot of Word 2008 and PowerPoint 2008:
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Beverly Delidow | January 8, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Take it from a confirmed Mac user: WE DON’T WANT THE BLASTED RIBBON!!!
I want a drop down menu with plainly typed WORDS for commands, no confusing cartoons, and no inflated boxes running across my work window!!
GET RID OF IT!
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Derick Schaefer | February 6, 2008 at 2:41 am
I find it interesting that Vista strives to imitate great Mac features such as the address book and they leave Office for the Mac with some of it’s best legacy touches such as the good old fashion menus we know like the back of our hands.
I’m loving Office 2008 and the ability to deal with those dreaded .DOCX extensions. I’m also glad to not have to go through the pain that Windows users did in trying to re-learn their applications.
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Maluku | March 5, 2008 at 10:04 am
It looks better than any other Microsoft product so far. And it looks a lot like any other Mac Application. I would love to have that UI under Windows.
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Dave | March 14, 2008 at 1:23 pm
WTF?!!! The ribbon actually was the only reason for me to buy this shit. It is the best UI I’ve ever seen. Inmproving your workflow incredibly. Live formatting preview, gallerys etc etc etc. And now this shit! Im pissed on.
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88michael | March 29, 2008 at 5:04 am
@ Dave - This is up to Apple. Microsoft must make it look like a native Mac OS X app.
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Word 2008 for the Mac : M&hellip | July 9, 2008 at 5:04 am
[...] from Mac users telling them how dare them try to impose this. Point in case are the rants form the Tech Help Videos [...]