Minimizing the Ribbon: Exposed

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cxf — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:19:20 GMT

good knowledge.

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gm — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:27:58 GMT

Yes, but how can I make the ribbon vertical. The new 16:9 laptops have wasted horizontal space. The vertical hight is at a premium

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Not a happy customer — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:38:54 GMT

If only there were such an easy way to turn off the little icons that accompany every single command. Even a difficult way. You must think we're all terribly dumb to need a picture as well as a name. sigh. You've made the whole thing so junky looking. I knew it would be a chore to re-find all the commands... didn't realize it would be a visual assault as well.

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TomS — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:28:55 GMT

I have a lot of participants in my computer courses who are not so negative regarding the new internface. And at the very least I'm happy that they are much more friendly and polite in how they are telling their opinion, wheter they are for or against the new interface.

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BillR — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:50:46 GMT

Nice start. Now get rid of the ribbons altogether and then fire the idiots who insist on telling us what we like (e.g. ribbons... which most people HATE incidentally). Then put back the menu driven interface. Or at the very least, allow us to configure the interface back to menu driven. I bought Office 2007 (and I already knew about the 'hide ribbon' feature). I'll be using Open Office on my next machine.

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Greg — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:49:54 GMT

Interesting, but without access to a full keyboard interface, the ribbon is a huge downgrade for me. It makes me sad and I hate it.

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Anonymous — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:20:44 GMT

Quote: "...how long would Microsoft have to continue including a 'classic' menu option? Would it have been enough to include classic menus in Office 2007--and then drop them in 2010? If that's what you're proposing, then I'd concede that this would've been a smart idea. But if you think that 'classic' menus should be included in Office indefinitely... I'm not so sure."

This has to be weighed against the FACT that it's SOFT-ware, a classic interface is already written, and all that micro$oft has done over the years is proof enough that it would be EASY for microsoft to maintain it. We're talking about UI code here, not a redesign of an entire SQL or Exchange database schema. Arrogance is the problem. Lack of UI choice is the problem. The general computing public needs to be told they don't have to put-up with UI-forcing.

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Paul — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:04:07 GMT

Like many users I tried Office 2007, found the ribbon design a major problem on productivity and convert back to 2003, hoping that MS would give long time power users the option to switch to back to the classic menu on the 2010 version. If not, I will stick with 2003, it does the job well.

In particular, I found the ribbon to be a very poor fit with the Access database, so bad I concluded that perhaps MS agenda was to push power DB guys to Visual Studio. If MS does not change, then we have alternate office solutions out there.

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Kai — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:53:50 GMT

The recent developments in computing are focusing on those who are less experience or newbies -- and those who are experienced lose out.

I prefer Windows Xp with classic start menu. I still use command prompt quite often. I hate Ribbon and am still on Office 2003. And yes, I am still using my 4 years old laptop because all the new ones come with a wide screen.

I must be old.

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AmolK — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:00:09 GMT

Tronhar, your points are well taken. I am a long time Office user (Excel in particular). The Ribbon was a productivity killer for me. Hence, I reverted to Office 2003.

Insofar as my everyday Excel usage is concerned, I'm perfectly willing to bet that I can use Excel faster using the classic menus than anyone using the Ribbon. Why? Using familiar keyboard sequences is MUCH faster than using an interface that depends heavily on the use of a pointing device.

Had MS provided a native classic GUI alternative to the Ribbon, would the Ribbon wither and die on the vine? I strongly suspect that MS realized this and decided it was a better bet not to provide an alternative to the Ribbon.

I have absolutely no plans to move off Office 2003, because of the #$%@ Ribbon!

If MS really wanted to annoy long time Office products' users, then the Ribbon is a runaway hit!