I don't think it's fair to compare the sidebar to a ribbon because they have a different scope. The ribbon takes the place of both menus and toolbars--which means this same element you use to change the font is used to cut and paste, insert charts, open dialogues, save the document, and do pretty much everything. The sidebar has a different scope, and while we haven't formally defined that, I think we should. A good starting point for that would be "controls for editing aspects of the document." This would mean it would take the place of all of the toolbars that have to do with editing or inserting, along with the styles pane, gallery, and the like. (I suppose that would exclude the navigator from the sidebar, which might be reasonable. I see several use-cases involving using using the navigator and editing at the same time.) This would mean the sidebar would be used to change the current style, add shapes and lines, bold/underline words etc, while the menus would still be used for pretty much everything they are used for now. So the goal of the sidebar wouldn't be so much to replace the menus but instead to complement them.
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