That wasn’t the feature I was thinking of, but it was indeed one of Office 2007’s major innovations!
That release got a lot of grief for folks used to menus, but it really was a major leap in UX. The discoverability advantages were huge. Another favorite: rich tooltips with images and text descriptions for commands.
Sibling comment is a better description of what I was referring to, specifically floating the most common formatting commands next to the cursor on selection. It saves a mouse round trip to the ribbon.
That release got a lot of grief for folks used to menus, but it really was a major leap in UX. The discoverability advantages were huge. Another favorite: rich tooltips with images and text descriptions for commands.
Sibling comment is a better description of what I was referring to, specifically floating the most common formatting commands next to the cursor on selection. It saves a mouse round trip to the ribbon.