A quick way to cut down on this would be to make sure that as OOP provides a single identity for an arbitrary set of properties and capacities, no tool appears in one toolbar if it is already present in another. This does not solve the problem however. Iconic languages as used in an extremely limited way in transport information systems, or as proposed by the universalist anthropology of Margaret Mead, are always doomed to fail, swamped at best in connotation or more usually in disinterest. Word is not of course alone in having too many icons. To cope with this, icons in Word are always dependent on several kinds of textual help.
Help becomes necessary solely because of the vast number of icons that are completely inexplicable.
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