The Toolbox is a useful new collection of tools that was introduced in Office 2004. The primary concept was to prevent the possibility of many palettes being opened at once causing a window management problem for users. In general, it worked fairly well, however, it often collides with the Formatting Palette. In such instances, users have mentioned that they have to manage these two windows and that they take up a lot of valuable screen real estate. I personally find it annoying, especially when I am working on my laptop.
To address this primary problem of the Formatting Palette and the Toolbox windows taking up valuable screen real estate, we decided to integrate the Formatting Palette into the Toolbox as another client. Whew! Much nicer! In 2008, there is only one tool palette window... the Toolbox. Now, the first tool in the Toolbox is the Formatting Palette.
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