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To: Red in Blue PA

I personally like the ribbon. I don’t have to try and figure out where the functions are, if I momentarily forget.

6 posted on 03/15/2014 4:17:01 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)

You are the first person I met who does.

7 posted on 03/15/2014 4:22:15 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)

To: Jonty30; Red in Blue PA

I don’t have Windows 8, but I am guessing the ribbon in the OS is similar to what they did to Office?

I am (or at least, was) an accomplished Excel user. I never preferred Windows, but there were some things that I did like, and I liked Outlook and Excel. Great products, in my opinion.

Then my company had me upgrade Office from Office 2003.

What an abortion. I cannot believe what they did to the interface, never mind performance. Simply opening a document is so sluggish it makes me grit my teeth every time I have to do that, which is often.

But it is the “Ribbon” interface that has me flabbergasted. It makes ZERO sense to me, and after using it for months, I still struggle with it. I find it extraordinarily inefficient and non-intuitive.

Looking under “View” to find macros?????

What were they thinking?

11 posted on 03/15/2014 5:30:10 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)

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