Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Shaping it up

The Format AutoShape dialog box in Word 2007 and the Format Shape in PowerPoint 2007 look unnecessarily different despite serving the same functionality.

Fig1 : Format AutoShape dialog box in Word 2007

Fig 2: Format Shape dialog box in PowerPoint 2007

And what is automatic about the shape in Word?

While, the dialog boxes look different, the formatting ribbon is uniform and simply fantastic - unleashing the power of professional looking formatting to non-power users.

And not to forget the wonderfully implemented "hovering toolbar" on the context sensitive menu..
Powertip for PowerPoint Users: Struggled to draw a straight line on a slide? Keeping the Shift Key pressed draws either perfectly horizontal or a perfectly vertical line.

Anybody wants a perfectly diagonal line ?

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