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Microsoft has recognized that one of the key issues with using a touch device is the accuracy of touching part of the screen, particularly for those with fairly fat fingers. There are several articles in Microsoft.com that provide guidelines with some particular issues such as targeting a specific point on the screen. There are also user interface elements such as the color picker, the general principle of which is to take the convential color picker and just make everything biger so that it would be easier to operate with your fingers. Learn how to zoom in and zoom out using your fingers. To learn more about the different gestures, basic gestures, gestures with shapes and objects in touch, watch this lesson!

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Welcome back to our course on Project 2013. I’m going to look at touch in this short section. If you’re not intending to use touch and maybe not even interested in using touch or how people use it, then you can pretty much skip this section. If you are going to use touch or if you’re considering using touch, then it’s quite a short section and I think it’s very useful to go through it with me.

The first thing I’d like to point out to you is this blog post on office.com, Using the new Office with touch. You can find that by Googling it or by going to microsoft.com and searching. But it is an extremely good post which basically gives the background to how Microsoft went about addressing touch in Office 2013 in general.

From the point of view of touch, Project is part of Office 2013. So virtually everything that you see in this blog post is relevant to Project.
Now I’m not going to go through all the detail here. It’s a really interesting document to read. It not only gives the background as to why they did things the way that they did but it also goes into some detail of the particular requirements of different aspects of using a fairly advanced piece of software with a touch device. They recognized in particular that one of the key issues with using a touch device, as we’ll see during this course, is the accuracy of touching part of the screen. Particularly, if you’ve got fairly fat fingers like mine in comparison with accessing maybe just a single point on a screen using a mouse.

Now if you go through this article, it gives background to the vision for touch by Microsoft, the sort of guidelines they followed and then some particular issues like targeting which is really the targeting a specific point on the screen. And then things like the changes they made to the Ribbon. Now we’re going to look at the use of the Ribbon with touch in the next section so I won’t go into that here. And then further down they talk about other user interface elements. A good example is the color picker. That’s not particularly relevant to Project, although you do use it in a couple of situations in Project. But again the general principle is to take the conventional color picker and just make everything bigger to be easier to operate with your fingers.

Anyway it’s an extremely interesting and informative article and I do recommend that you go through, take the time to just read through it. I will be referring to it from time to time and many of the points that it makes later on in the course and in many ways it forms the background to many aspects of touch in Project 2013.

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