Status Bar Update
Looking at "usable density" when designing the Office 12 status bar ...
"Yesterday, I walked you through some of the history of the status bar. Today, I'm going to write about what we've done in Office 12. It's not a radical departure from previous versions, but there are some nice improvements.
I mentioned yesterday than in thinking about the status bar for Office 12, the first conversation we had was "do we need it at all?" We looked at the various scenarios that required the status bar, those that used it but didn't need to, and features that could be made better through using that space.
We came to the conclusion that it did make sense for the Office 12 frame to contain a status bar. There were many "status-like" items that needed a place in the UI--document load information, printing status, long recalculation in Excel, and other background tasks." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Yesterday, I walked you through some of the history of the status bar. Today, I'm going to write about what we've done in Office 12. It's not a radical departure from previous versions, but there are some nice improvements.
I mentioned yesterday than in thinking about the status bar for Office 12, the first conversation we had was "do we need it at all?" We looked at the various scenarios that required the status bar, those that used it but didn't need to, and features that could be made better through using that space.
We came to the conclusion that it did make sense for the Office 12 frame to contain a status bar. There were many "status-like" items that needed a place in the UI--document load information, printing status, long recalculation in Excel, and other background tasks." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Office 12 Status Bar.
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