I have been a software developer on Windows since 3.1. I
have used Word from
time to time ever since. I could always
find my way around Word to do whatever
was required. Then
when I moved from XP to Win7, I went without Word for a few
years, and somewhere since the last version I used it
changed to using the
Ribbon.
I am not stupid. I just told you, I am a software
developer.
For example, not too long ago, my mother had a
problem with her ancient,
pre-ribbon version of Outlook,
software I have never used. Because it was so
simple and
intuitive to navigate through the menus I could intuitively
grasp
it. I fixed her problem in minutes.
In the past year, I installed Word
2007. I can't find the
most basic things. Nothing is intuitive. It is broken.
Attempts to get it to render some basic function will put it
into a view or
state that I can't find my way out of. It
makes me feel like I am
stupid.
Software should be intuitive. The Ribbon is not. I am not
someone who creates documents for a living so any time spent
trying to learn
to use word processing is time spent away
from what I love doing - writing
code. I have no interest in
trying to learn Word, and nobody to teach me short
cuts. It
was change for the sake of change, with no need or rational
behind
it. Maybe younger folk had no other option but get
used to the Ribbon, but for
me, Word became unusable with
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