Microsoft Office 12 MiniBar Feature Revealed

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Microsoft Office 12 MiniBar Feature Revealed

Filed in: Microsoft — October 7th, 2005

Jensen Harris revealed the MiniBar feature in Microsoft Office 12.

Microsoft Office 12 MiniBar Feature Revealed

When you select text in Office 12, the MiniBar appears “ghosted” above the text you selected. If you move closer to the MiniBar, it fades in and becomes a miniature toolbar you can use to apply Bold, Italic, Font Size, Color, etc. As you move the pointer away from the edge of the MiniBar, it fades away to nothing. So, if you don’t want to use the MiniBar on selection, just move your cursor a few pixels away and it dismisses.

Watch Office 12 Minibar in action (wmv, 982KB)

[ via the office blog ]

Thought

I must say the Minibar is a very handy feature, it save at least few miles of mouse moving distance for typing a document.

[tags]Office, Microsoft Office, Office 12[/tags]

Tien Soon
fooo.... this is amazing. It certainly saves the mouse pointer movement time. Recently, an official announcement made has confirmed that Office 12 will be featuring PDF publishing capabilities as well. Though it's a little bit late to have it in Office 12, but it will sureful be another most-used feature.