Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

• NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ribbon is one of the best inventions Microsoft ever came up with and I will die on this hill. I’m old enough to remember very well the suffering when I was trying to find something in the classic menus or among the billion equal sized icons scattered across multiple toolbars in old MS Office versions. When Office 2007 came out, everything was suddenly so much easier to find, often with less clicks. I don’t see any reason why I’d need the old style menu in addition to ribbon.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was something faster and more reliable: keyboard shortcuts.

    The ribbon is for people who use the mouse for stuff that is much faster to do with a keyboard.

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    • NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t possibly have every feature on a keyboard shortcut, even just all those various formatting features in Word for example where you often have to choose something from a list of options. And even if you somehow did manage to have a shortcut for everything, you’d still only remember those you use frequently enough.

      Not to mention, I’m pretty sure most of those shortcuts from 2003 still work today.

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay, let me rephrase my initial criticism:

        • let have whoever would like to have three rows of ribbon icons whose description is only visible as a mouse-over hint
        • fuck Microsoft for forcefully removing the regular office drop-down menus

        The second part in this process was completely unnecessary and made office a worthless pile of bloatware.

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