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I've always kinda liked the ribbon, since it came out in 2007. Traditionally, you get menus and the most important features doubled as rows of small icons. Ico

I've always kinda liked the ribbon, since it came out in 2007. Traditionally, you get menus and the most important features doubled as rows of small icons. Icons lack text so if you can't find the one you want you need to hover them one by one; also they are not organized into clear named categories, and they all have the same importance. Menus are complete and organized, but not visual (it's just text, although in some programs they add small icons), and all features are given the same importance also. The ribbon is exactly like a menu (complete and well organized by named categories), but in addition it's visual (you get large icons added to the text), and buttons are sized differently depending on their importance. Also it's collapsible. The only drawback I can find is that if you know exactly what you want, it takes 2 clicks with the ribbon vs 1 click on an icon.

alasarmas 3y ago
If you hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage), all of the targets on the ribbon should get associated keyboard characters, so you can quickly drill through the layers of the ribbon. After you’ve seen the shortcut, you can use it again without having to wait for any screen transitions. This used to work back in Office 2013, and I assume it still does…
- fsckboy 3y ago
  >hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage) when i hear ALT i reach to press ESC due to TECO-induced brain damage not even joking at all. i'll finish the way you finish a teco command; ALT ALT https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TECO https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TECO $$