Office 07 - Previewing effects works inconsistently...

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Andrew Wiseman

I was just editing a document in Word 2007. I selected a piece of text and
then went to the font chooser on the main ribbon menu. As the mouse
highlighted over each one, the selected text from the document changed into
that font. This is a handy new feature, but sadly the font drop-down list
was so big it covered up the text I had selected. So instead I tried
right-clicking on the text. This time I get a context-sensitive menu and
also a font choose. Another handy new feature. But this time as my mouse
moved over the different font styles, my selected text did not change to
show me what it would like :-(

Similarly I found in Excel 2007, when I highlighted an area, the Cell Styles
drop down menu from the Styles bar on the ribbon previewed each style. But
the Format as Table drop down did not. :-(
 
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Beth Melton

You'll find that Live Preview is only available when using the ribbon
and does not apply to shortcut menus. This is due to the technology
the ribbon uses versus the shortcut menus. The shortcut menus use the
same command bar technology as in previous versions.

Regarding the Format as Table in Excel, this gallery works a little
differently since it applies to a defined named range. After you
select a format the named range is defined for you and then the
gallery will show Live Preview. The cool part about this is once the
range is defined you don't need to reselect the range to change the
Table format.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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