Office 12 to Feature 'Super Tooltips'
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Tooltips, those little yellow popup boxes that provide information on a button or menu option, have become an indispensable part of the modern user interface.
Microsoft is looking to extend their usefulness by introducing what it calls "Super Tooltips" in the upcoming release of Office 12.
To start, each Office 12 tooltip will contain the feature name and keyboard shortcut if it exists. Beyond that, a short description of the option informs users about what it does.
" The concept is to give you the idea of what a feature is for without needing to look it up in help or in a manual" says Jensen Harris, head of Microsoft's User Experience team.
Some Super Tooltips will include images to help explain what an option does in relation to the document. "Someone might not know what a "caption" is, but when they see the little picture with a line of text saying "Figure 7: blah blah blah" under it, they suddenly understand what it is," notes Harris.
For those worried about having large boxes appearing throughout Office 12 the good news is that Super Tooltips can be disabled and Office will revert back to "command name only" tooltips.
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