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| Authored by: feldegast on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 01:04 PM EST |
i can see how the ribbon is goal focused but, as someone who
does more than the average amount of formatting (compared to
the average user) in documents, the office xp/2003 system
where i could show/hide the toolbars i needed and add
additional buttons i specifically need without their full
toolbar worked great as generally i'd only need 2 toolbars
and maybe 3-4 additional buttons not every button for every
function that i'd never even use i mean as an example, how
often do you change line spacing in a document once??? or you
set a style and change that!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 06:42 PM EST |
My first problem with the ribbon is that the goal often isn't apparent.
As usual, M$ takes an existing feature, renames it something else, then hides
it. So I while I might have been able to find it on the ribbon if it was named
something I recognize, its utter frustration when I don't even know what I'm
looking for.
A word processor is not a bling thing that I want the latest bells and whistles.
Its a tool that use to accomplish a task, and the less time and effort I have to
put into the task, the better.
If the ribbon gave me all the same things the old menus and tool bars did, and
allowed me to configure it for my workstyle, I'd probably adjust fairly quickly.
But when I have to relearn Word simply because of the ribbon, I don't bother, I
just use the version I'm comfortable with. And when it end-of-lifes, I switch to
something else that works the way I do instead of constantly trying to force me
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