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Yeah, I actually saw a presentation at Microsoft's Mix (the web-oriented conference they ran for a while) about the ribbon. I never loved the ribbon but it was
by ghaff 2y ago
Yeah, I actually saw a presentation at Microsoft's Mix (the web-oriented conference they ran for a while) about the ribbon. I never loved the ribbon but it was really an attempt to deal with all the features that maybe 1% (at most) of users ever utilized but that those (many different) 1%s REALLY cared about.
One of the reasons I like Google Workplace. I'm mostly not a power user these days so the simpler option set really works for me even if I very rarely run into something I can't quite do like I'd prefer.
- keyringlight 2y agoEven before the ribbon they had identified and were trying to deal with the problem. I think either office 2000 or xp had the 'traditional' drop down menus but would hide less-used items until you clicked a little ≫ expander at the bottom, the downside being that would change the layout of the menu a bit as less/most-used changed which works against learning what items are located where.
- harrall 2y agoEven if you were the 99% user, the ribbon solved the problem with toolbars. Word had like 20 different toolbars. If you wanted to work with tables, you had to open the Table toolbar. If you wanted to work with WordArt, you opened the WordArt toolbar. You could be the 99% user and still end up with 10 toolbars open even if you only needed one button on a certain toolbar. On a small monitor, half your screen consisted of your document and the other half toolbars. I can’t remember if you could customize toolbars but not a lot of people would spend the time to do that. I sure never did.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> I can’t remember if you could customize toolbars but not a lot of people would spend the time to do that. I sure never did. You could, but the typical user only did few customizations (if any).