Ribbon in Outlook 2007

[Rob Nicholson]

How do you enable the ribbon interface in Outlook 2007? It seems to be using
a classic Outlook menu. I get a ribbon when I compose an email.

Thanks, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The main window of Outlook doesn't use the Ribbon.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

The main window of Outlook doesn't use the Ribbon.

*thud* why?

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Because they didn't had the resources to do that for this version; they have
designed 19 windows in Outlook with Ribbon support for this version.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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[Rob Nicholson]

Because they didn't had the resources to do that for this version; they

have designed 19 windows in Outlook with Ribbon support for this version.

That is a very poor excuse...

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not really, research takes time, money and other resources. If they don't
have the resources to do it right they'd better not do it at all. I say;
good call!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Just to add to this: Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word have ONE ribbon
each. Outlook's 19 ribbons took resources to create than the ribbon of
any other application.

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Because they didn't had the resources to do that for this version; they have
designed 19 windows in Outlook with Ribbon support for this version.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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*thud* why?

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Not really, research takes time, money and other resources. If they don't

have the resources to do it right they'd better not do it at all. I say;
good call!

This is Microsoft we're talking about here!

Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Just to add to this: Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word have ONE ribbon

each. Outlook's 19 ribbons took resources to create than the ribbon of any
other application.

Well they might have well done the 20th Seriously, if there are 19
ribbons in there, lack of resources doesn't seem like the real reason.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Believe it or not, but Microsoft has limited resources. Office 2007 is
full of examples of that (e.g. the new WordArt exists only in Excel &
PPT, while Word itself uses the old WordArt. The reason for this is that
the Word team decided to spend some of its limited resources on other
things, e.g. Equations, Bibliography stuff, etc).
You can read a bit more about Outlook and the Ribbon:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/01/16/513313.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/09/30/475687.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/01/18/514300.aspx

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[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, and there are limitations to what they can do as well. As much as you
might have wanted to; they are not almighty. They are currently researching
what other applications might benefit from using the new Ribbon style
interface.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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[Rob Nicholson]

might have wanted to; they are not almighty. They are currently

researching

Really?

Rob

 

[Trebli]

Is there any chance that an update (possibly downloadable) will add the ribbon?

Thanks,
Trebli

The main window of Outlook doesn't use the Ribbon.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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How do you enable the ribbon interface in Outlook 2007? It seems to be
using a classic Outlook menu. I get a ribbon when I compose an email.

Thanks, Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Is there any chance that an update (possibly downloadable) will add the

ribbon?

Well there are things filtering through that turn them off so who knows

One thing with ribbons that kind of annoys me is there are a handful of
toolbar icons that I use all the time in Word (okay so we're in Outlook but
you get the idea) like the "show/hide formatting" toolbar icon. I find it
frustrating to have to select the Home ribbon just to get this back. Is
there a way to make toolbar icons visible all the time?

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Sure; use the Quick Access Toolbar or the keyboard shortcuts. In this case
CTRL+SHIFT+8

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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[Rob Nicholson]

Sure; use the Quick Access Toolbar or the keyboard shortcuts. In this case

CTRL+SHIFT+8

I'll check out the quick access toolbar.

Cheers, Rob.