Fogey Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 The ribbon! Why? Its bloody awful. Why are microsoft persisting with this crap? Its an awful way to work. Why are Companies like Autodesk going along with it? Its crap! I have been trying to get along with it for months now and its just getting worse! Who came up with this crap? What' s the reasoning? Somebody tell me, and don't tell me its a better way to work coz it isn't, its bloody terrible. Somebody tell microsoft to change back for God's sake! Please make it stop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 For a ribbon free and much less costly existence... http://www.libreoffice.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fogey Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 For a ribbon free and much less costly existence... http://www.libreoffice.org Unfortunately my employer is a large public sector organisation with an IT department that can't get past the need for everything to be Microsoft based. Pity me, its only right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Just out of interest what is ribbon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonjon Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 In computer interface design, a ribbon is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs. In 2007 Microsoft products introduced a form of modular ribbon as their main interface where large tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other graphical control elements, are grouped by functionality. Such ribbons use tabs to expose different sets of controls, eliminating the need for many parallel toolbars. Contextual tabs are tabs that appear only when the user needs them. For instance, in a word processor, an image-related tab may appear when the user selects an image in a document, allowing the user to interact with that image. The usage of the term ribbon dates from the 1980s and was originally used as a synonym for what is now more commonly known as a (non-tabbed) toolbar. However, in 2007, Microsoft Office 2007 used the term to refer to its own implementation of tabbed toolbars bearing heterogeneous controls, which Microsoft calls "The Fluent UI". Thus, Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, although similar tabbed layouts of controls had existed in previous software from other vendors. The new design was intended to alleviate the problem of users not finding or knowing of the existence of available features in the Office suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Great,thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Denomis will soon be along to tell us to get with the program and how wonderful the ribbon is... but if you ever used a "pre ribbon" version of Word etc you will soon know just how annoying it is... Those who have never used anything else probably won't know what the fuss is because they wont know what they are missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jomie Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Don't know if this works in Microsoft Office but can you not minimize the ribbon? Right click at the top to minimize and also click to show the quick access toolbar. Right click on the individual elements that you want to add to the latter. Sorry if I have it wrong but it works in Paint and Windows Live 2011 Email interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Denomis will soon be along to tell us to get with the program and how wonderful the ribbon is... but if you ever used a "pre ribbon" version of Word etc you will soon know just how annoying it is... Annoying is having to help people save their important Word document who have "customised" the save button off their toolbar and managed to turn the menu bar off. Or to try to explain why menu items move around depending on how regularly you use them. The Office ribbon interface may not be great, but it's nowhere near as broken as the previous UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fogey Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 Annoying is having to help people save their important Word document who have "customised" the save button off their toolbar and managed to turn the menu bar off. Or to try to explain why menu items move around depending on how regularly you use them. The Office ribbon interface may not be great, but it's nowhere near as broken as the previous UI. The previous UI could be broken, the ribbon is wrong from the word GO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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