Conditional Formatting Compatibility

re: Conditional Formatting Compatibility

Patrick Schmid — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:56:07 GMT

Hi Eric,

are you going to have a post that shows the difference between the compatibility handling of Excel and Word? Or is that something the (almost dead) Word blog will do?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid

re: Conditional Formatting Compatibility

Francis — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:07:17 GMT

An aside:
I take it that screenshot is from a recent build. It is odd that, despite the new interface, which conceals the application control menu, the document control menu is sticking around.

It is in the middle of all the action--Office button, Save, Home tab, and Copy/Paste--and thus seems likely to invite more stray clicks (and mystification) than anything else.

Why not get rid it, at least when the document window is maximized? The restore, minimize, and close commands would still be available via the 3 dedicated buttons in the NE corner plus keyboard shortcuts.

This should be easy, given that the application control menu appears to be implemented twice: once for maximized windows and once for restored!

re: Conditional Formatting Compatibility

Eric Patterson — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:09:49 GMT

Patrick,

I will see if I can put together something that compares the compatibility features in Excel in Word.

-Eric

re: Conditional Formatting Compatibility

Patrick Schmid — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:11:12 GMT

Eric,

thank you. I think it's especially important to highlight the difference between Excel's and Word's handling of new features (e.g. SmartArt) in legacy documents (doc & xls).

Patrick

re: Conditional Formatting Compatibility

David Gainer — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:37:31 GMT

Francis, the application control menu is not shown by default. It only appears when the "Show all windows in taskbar" switch is turned off in Options (i.e. Excel is put in full MDI mode). Eric must have had that setting off when it took the picture.