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Published: 31 May 2006 02:05 BST

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Microsoft wants Word 2007 to put more features at your fingertips, without making you grope for them the way previous iterations of the application did. Word 2003, for example, featured 300 menu items and 31 toolbars. Brandished atop each screen within Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, the tabbed layout of the Ribbon of icons surfaces tools according to the task at hand.

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