Microsoft Office is testing a simplified interface

Microsoft began testing a simplified toolbar and in oflayn- Office online apps. It displays only the most necessary functions. To get access to the other features, you need to click on a special button.

Updated bar eventually gets to all office applications Microsoft, but it is only available in the online version of Word. Participants Office test program will test the new feature in Outlook in July.

Because Excel and PowerPoint users often rely on muscle memoryTo a simplified application of the panel will reach not soon. Word for Windows users, too, will have to wait until the developer will collect feedback. Microsoft says that if you want to the old panel can be revisited at any time.

Among other things, the company has redesigned the look of Office applications icons. She made them more contrast and sharper, so that they did not merge with the background. These icons while also only available in Word Web version. They will appear in Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows this month, in Outlook for Windows - in July, and in Outlook for MacOS - in August.

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