{"id":1664,"date":"2008-01-24T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/office-2008-review\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:56:15","slug":"office-2008-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/office-2008-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2008 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/reviews\/office2008\/\">Robert Mohns (at MacInTouch)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/reviews\/office2008\/\">\n<p>Although they look like normal preference windows, the Preferences windows have no close box; instead you still must click &ldquo;OK&rdquo; or &ldquo;Cancel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another oddity is that <em>document-specific settings<\/em> &ndash; such as per-document security, view, and spelling\/grammar&mdash;are still mixed in with <em>application preferences<\/em>. We would have expected this terrible practice to be excised by now, but no such luck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&rsquo;s lots more interesting commentary about changes to Office&rsquo;s user interface and elsewhere. This line is off, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/reviews\/office2008\/\">\n<p>And while Save As uses a standard Mac OS X sheet, the Open dialog is a modal window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The dialog for opening documents should <em>not<\/em> be a sheet because it&rsquo;s an application-level action.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mohns (at MacInTouch): Although they look like normal preference windows, the Preferences windows have no close box; instead you still must click &ldquo;OK&rdquo; or &ldquo;Cancel.&rdquo; Another oddity is that document-specific settings &ndash; such as per-document security, view, and spelling\/grammar&mdash;are still mixed in with application preferences. We would have expected this terrible practice to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}