Month: January 2007

As anyone who starts using Office 2007 likely knows, one of the more dramatic changes is the elimination of traditional menus and toolbars. These have been replaced with what Office calls the Ribbon. The short explanation of this new user interface is that more commands are displayed at a time without having to hunt through various submenus, dialogs and toolbars.   While the Office team has done work to try and support Office 2003 hotkeys…

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, at least one U.S. court has said that our currency needs to be made more accessible. Since that time things have heated up a bit.   The treasury department has appealed the court decision largely on what the treasury department sees as the cost of making currency accessible.   But in their petition to the appeals court, government lawyers argued that varying the size of denominations could…