Hi,
PTC has been busy working on an update to the Windchill Desktop Integration ribbon interface in Microsoft Office. The current ribbon implementation has been in place for a long time and looks like this. It uses standard ribbon buttons with text labels. These text labels are a bit large and verbose, making the overall layout of the ribbon very wide as shown by the collapsed Local File Actions panel.
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The objective of the redesign was to make the ribbon easier to use, by presenting the most commonly used actions with large icons in a compact manner that will reduce, if not eliminate the need to collapse the action panels. We accomplished this by implementing the Microsoft ribbon Split button which allows us to put the most commonly used actions directly on the ribbon and the secondary actions below in a drop down menu.
The new ribbon UI in Microsoft Office looks like this.
Hopefully you'll find this new layout much easier to use and folks will have much fewer questions regarding the use of the various actions in the Microsoft Office Windchill ribbon.