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Office 2016 screen shots

Also from NeoWin are some screen shots from Office 2016.  They don’t reveal a lot but are still interesting.

Here’s the Word 2016 ribbon with the Word 2013 ribbon below for comparison.

The Office 2016 example uses the Black theme which Microsoft seems to unduly love these days.  Redmond hopes that the ‘new’ look will fool people into thinking there’s more new substance in Office 2016 than there really is. But don’t worry, there will be other lighter themes available too.  The Office background patterns (top right of the ribbon) will continue in Office 2016 for no good reason.

The Quick Access Toolbar icons have changed a little.  The Gallery has flattened a bit.

The major change is the more prominent help in the form of ‘Tell me what you want to do …’. Here it is in PowerPoint 2016.

This is already in the Office Online web apps.  You can type in a question or phrase and the initial responses are actual commands, instead of text telling you where the command is.

Keep in mind that these are images from a relatively early test version of Office 2016.  There will be more changes before any public preview, let alone final release.

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