I personally like the ribbon. I don’t have to try and figure out where the functions are, if I momentarily forget.
You are the first person I met who does.
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?