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.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 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.
NoRodent@lemmy.world 5 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.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Okay, let me rephrase my initial criticism:
The second part in this process was completely unnecessary and made office a worthless pile of bloatware.