On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >It took me a few weeks to finally track down the problem, event viewer > >didn't offer any real clues, but while I was troubleshooting, I offered to > >roll them back to Office 2003. Every single person refused this offer and > >said that they loved the new interface too much to go back to the old. > > It is interesting that the cheerleaders for this latest interface > travesty are the same two people who are always cheerleaders for whatever > MS deigns to dish out. > > The problem is what MS chose to put in the ribbons. Instead of presenting > a logical map of the program's functions, the ribbons have big icons for > functions that MS thinks are popular. This eliminates the possibility of > learning a systematic model of the program's operation. Instead we have > an almost random selection of features based solely on popularity. So we > have to rely on memorization instead of understanding. A dumb way to do > it. >
I just started to use the new M$ Office for work. I think ribbon interface is an improvement but it took me a month and a half to get there. The old interface had things hidden in menus while the ribbon has things laying out to be found. Where M$ really falls down on the job is the help file. I really need the search function in the help file to bring up how to do things when you search for them. I was looking for how to do a header in Word and what the help file returned for header didn't include a simple explanation of how to set up a header. I had to read through a bunch of files and figure out from the context how to do what I wanted to do. There should be a clear explanation of common tasks. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
