You'll Know It When You See It
An interesting new feature in the Office 12 UI ...
"An important element of the new user interface in Office 12 is a feature we call "Live Preview."
The basic idea behind Live Preview is simple: whenever you hover over a formatting option with your mouse cursor, Office shows you what your document would look like if you chose to apply that formatting. For example, say that you drop down the font picker in Word. As you hover over each choice in the font picker, your document updates to show you what it would look like if you chose that font. Traditionally, formatting can be a very repetitive process.
Live Preview works for more than just fonts, of course. Most objects in Office are hooked up to Live Preview so that you can "pick before you click." This includes borders, fills, rotation, bullets and numbering, outline styles, picture fine-tuning, textures, styles, slide designs, 3D effects, animations, transitions, and a bunch of other stuff. (Sounds too!) Even features that change an entire object, such as table or shape styles, are Live Preview-enabled. Beta 1 includes a lot of Live Preview, and we are continuing to work to hook more objects up for the final release." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"An important element of the new user interface in Office 12 is a feature we call "Live Preview."
The basic idea behind Live Preview is simple: whenever you hover over a formatting option with your mouse cursor, Office shows you what your document would look like if you chose to apply that formatting. For example, say that you drop down the font picker in Word. As you hover over each choice in the font picker, your document updates to show you what it would look like if you chose that font. Traditionally, formatting can be a very repetitive process.
Live Preview works for more than just fonts, of course. Most objects in Office are hooked up to Live Preview so that you can "pick before you click." This includes borders, fills, rotation, bullets and numbering, outline styles, picture fine-tuning, textures, styles, slide designs, 3D effects, animations, transitions, and a bunch of other stuff. (Sounds too!) Even features that change an entire object, such as table or shape styles, are Live Preview-enabled. Beta 1 includes a lot of Live Preview, and we are continuing to work to hook more objects up for the final release." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Live Preview.
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