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What is “commands-on-selection“ ? I googled it - but that only led back here!

• wolpoli 5y ago
  If you hover your cursor over certain commands in the ribbon, you'll see a preview of the action in the editing area. This was one of the major feature of Office 2007.
  • n8cpdx 5y ago
    That wasn’t the feature I was thinking of, but it was indeed one of Office 2007’s major innovations! That release got a lot of grief for folks used to menus, but it really was a major leap in UX. The discoverability advantages were huge. Another favorite: rich tooltips with images and text descriptions for commands. Sibling comment is a better description of what I was referring to, specifically floating the most common formatting commands next to the cursor on selection. It saves a mouse round trip to the ribbon.
• kthejoker2 5y ago
  Eg when you select text, a table, etc. in Word it provides a toolbar of popular commands (font, layout, etc)