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The ribbon has Alt shortcuts with clear hints. It’s an all-around improvement on menus. Not on the Mac though. But Macs also don’t have alt shortcuts in menus.
by akho 7y ago
The ribbon has Alt shortcuts with clear hints. It’s an all-around improvement on menus.
Not on the Mac though. But Macs also don’t have alt shortcuts in menus.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 7y agoRibbon buttons are smaller than menu items and have no text until you hover over them. They're both harder to find and harder to press even if you know where they are. And somehow there seems to be less space in ribbon than in menus, because some commands are tucked away in second-level palettes. E.g. you need to open the "Reveal formatting" palette in MS Word: 1. Switch to Home pane. 2. Click the tiny icon at the bottom right corner of the styles section. It will open the "Styles" palette. The icon is unlabeled, of course. 3. At the bottom of the "Styles" palette there are three icons. One of them opens "Style Inspector" palette. It's hard to tell which one until you hover it to read the tooltip as they're pretty similar. 4. At the bottom of the "Style Inspector" we have two more icons. Again, hover over them to see which one opens the "Reveal Formatting" palette. 5. There you are. I don't know if there's a shorter route. A good menu would be much more discoverable.
- akho 7y agoI don't see how. Do you remember office menus and toolbars? They were insane. I remember the 'collapsed' menus in 2003 as a low point in UI design. (Shift+F1 opens the 'reveal formatting' pane. I think it's tucked away on purpose, as a 'wrong' way to do things in modern Word)