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A few doors down the hall some mad scientists have been cooking up a great add-in for the Ribbons featured in 2007 versions of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. You can now add a Get Started tab in those applications and pull in some great content from our training and demos teams. The effort does more than simply add a tab, though. It shows developers how easy it is to make custom tabs in the Ribbon.
Here's some background from Judi Hurlock, an Office Online writer who lead the efforts:
In October 2006, Mark Alexieff, Senior Product Manager, contacted Jessica Reading and Jean Philippe Bagel for help with the Get Started Tabs. The project had two goals: To help customers find 2007 Office demos, training, and other support materials available on Office Online by creating a Get Started Tab for the Office Fluent Ribbon, with links to content that would help customers get up to speed with the new UI in the first day/week of use. To use the Get Started Tabs as an example of Ribbon extensibility for the developer audience. Today, I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Get Started Tabs on Office Online. The add-ins add a Get Started tab to the Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word 2007 Ribbon. Commands on these tab give easy access to free content on Office Online that help customers learn these 2007 Office system programs quickly.
In October 2006, Mark Alexieff, Senior Product Manager, contacted Jessica Reading and Jean Philippe Bagel for help with the Get Started Tabs. The project had two goals:
Today, I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Get Started Tabs on Office Online. The add-ins add a Get Started tab to the Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word 2007 Ribbon. Commands on these tab give easy access to free content on Office Online that help customers learn these 2007 Office system programs quickly.
And now, on to the links. You can get the add-in here. And see how to do it yourself here in an MSDN article.
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Sounds great. But (based on the above screenshot), you probably should have used the Office Word 2007 icon for the Word 2007 button, not a Word 2003 document icon.
Looks like the final version has all the icon goodness it should have upon install. This image is from the article on MSDN. The change request shall commence shortly. And thanks for the catch!
Could not get it to work. "A runtime error occured when loading the add-in." Very frustrating.
I have tried it for two weeks. I was told they invested a lot of R&D on this item. I find it takes for mouse clicks and more arm movement to do the things I do. It's pretty like Clippy, and as useful. It's not efficient for me. Is there a "restore classic UI" button or do I have to hide the ribbon bar and add all those icons I need to the quick access bar? Help!
Hi we currently run Office 2003 on Vista Ultimate is it worth the extra expense to upgrade at the moment? Saxen Office Furniture
www.saxen.co.uk
To those currently using 2007 What would you say are the main benefits of Office 2007 over 2003???
I downloaded the add-in. But it did not install on the "Fluent" ribbon. Each of the three Get Started add-ins are listed in my "add or remove programs" but I also cannot uninstall them and get error messages "invalid drive c" and "fatal error during installation". So, they are neither installed on the ribbon and they are not able to be removed via "add or remove programs"! My laptop runs XP. A real bummer. I did successfully install them on a Vista machine.
Sounds nice. I'll try download add-in and hope to suceed.
I have having problem with it- I dont know but somehow it hangsup. any suggestions.
I am sorry to say that I find the Office Ribbon the least productive part of ANY upgrade I have ever seen. I have been using Word for just about 18 years, most of my working life, & I can say without any reservation that Office 2007 is the biggest drain on my productivity in that period. How this is supposed to make things any better is beyond me, & as I advise my customers on all things IT they are not interested in anything that will disrupt their staff to this extent. I have no idea what sort of UI testing was done (although I accept that there must have been a lot), but things that used to be simple are now hidden, hard to find or simply incomprehensible. That I have spent 15 mins finding a half way suitable place to air my thoughts highlights my deep frustration with this version of Office. Don't get me started on Vista, if I manage a day without a crash that's a good day. I have given up trying to copy to & from network drives, it just doesn't work. Sorry for the rant, but MS must accept that there are people who are very, very unhappy with this software & could have done something better to help us adapt (the old menus available for example).
Works on some installs but get "A runtime error occured when loading the add-in." on others.
So will i need to update to vista?
Our call centre personel tell us that they have, so far, not found this feature to be much of an aid to productivity. They'e just experienced a complete refit with furniture from www.theglassoffice.co.uk and they tell us that the new seating etc. is much more beneficial than this new ribbon tab.
looks great - has it helped anyone with their prodcutivity? Joe Tucker www.officesupermarket.co.uk
This is actually really good. I stumbled across this completely by accident, I would definately recommend it. All I have to do now is get used to the Vista interface!! www.intercounty.com
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