The Office 2007 UI Bible

Patrick Schmid has done a public service for anyone just getting started with Office 2007. He began at Jensen Harris’s superb Office User Interface Blog 

The title is not very exciting, and could easily be mistaken to be a blog by an Office user. I personally like to think of it as the “Office UI Bible” or the “Ribbon UI Bible”. Jensen’s blog is the definite resource and word on the new Ribbon UI. Jensen is the program manager in charge of the Office UI team.

Patrick correctly calls it “a must-read for everyone interested in UI design, a should-read for everyone developing add-ins for Office and a recommended-read for everyone.”

The only problem is that Harris has written so much that the content can be overwhelming, and trying to follow it in chronological order isn’t really productive. So Patrick created a custom category index of the most important posts he found there.

The number of posts though has been so voluminous, for several months e.g. there was a new post daily, that it is difficult for someone just joining the Office 2007 frenzy to find the pieces he or she is interested in. With this post, I’ll attempt to provide an index to the most important posts on Jensen’s blog. Whenever I have a post that talks about a particular category, you can get to it by following the link behind the category title itself.

If anyone wants to do the same for this site, just let me know. 😉

Source: Patrick Schmid’s The Office UI Bible

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