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I thought there was an actual difference in presentation back in the days toolbar buttons actually had borders, but no, when you look at https://winworldpc.com/
by chrismorgan 3y ago
I thought there was an actual difference in presentation back in the days toolbar buttons actually had borders, but no, when you look at https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/6x-a08a659bdbb00f119362d68cfd975b38-Microsoft%20Word%206%20for%20Windows%20-%20Edit.png https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/6x-a08a659bdbb00f..., Word 6, you see it’s all just simple grouping of toolbar buttons, nothing to do with mutual exclusivity at all: New|Open|Save, Print|Preview|Spellcheck, Cut|Copy|Paste|PasteFormatting (if my memory serves me correctly?), …, AlignLeft|AlignCentre|AlignRight|Justify, Numbered|Bulleted|Dedent|Indent.
- eviks 3y agoI thought it was true when compared alignment group with bold/italics, in the Word Ribbon UI they do seem to have less space separating them, but then in Wordpad the paragraph button next to alignment group seems to have the visually very similar space width and the icon is very similar, so there is no way such poorly perceptible convention helps even if it does exist