According to the Office UI guidelines that section is not required unless you have view changing controls. If you have this and you want to emulate that look you will probably need to change the ItemsPanel of the statusbar from the default StackPanel to a DockPanel, set the Dock of the StatusBarItem you're adding that has the view changing controls to Right and set the Style of the StatusBarItem such that its color is similar to that of Office ones. You may want to submit a suggestion that we include a StatusBarItem style (or possibly even an attached property to indicate which is a view changing control) for the view controls.