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> Maybe some of those variations are due to running the same Excel on different versions of Windows, and it conforming to what it thinks native looks like on ea
by Lammy 4y ago
> Maybe some of those variations are due to running the same Excel on different versions of Windows, and it conforming to what it thinks native looks like on each. It's hard to tell.
The Office apps have used their own controls for a long time. Check out Word 97 running on Windows NT 3.51 for example: http://toastytech.com/guis/nt351word.png http://toastytech.com/guis/nt351word.png / http://toastytech.com/guis/nt3513.html http://toastytech.com/guis/nt3513.html
- pjmlp 4y agoUsually the office controls are integrated into Windows common controls in a later version. In the past they would either land in Win32 classes or updated MFC. The ribbon introduced by Office eventually became available as a COM UI library.