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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 22, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Thank you, Ken. I appreciate the information.
Steve Z.
Ken wrote:
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>
>>I don’t
>>know what “the Ribbon” is. Can you elaborate a
>little? Thank you.
>>
>>Steve Z.
>
>Stephen,
>
>Beginning in Office 2007, MS has
>replaced traditional drop down menus with ribbons that run accross the top of the
>program’s window. I grew up on drop down menus, and I find they work well for my work
>style, but having switched to Office 2007 at work, I do not find the ribbons to be as bad
>as I thought they would be. Commands are a bit more visible with ribbons, but the
>ribbons tend to occupy a bit more screen real estate - not very useful with netbooks.
>Any comprehensive review of Office 2007 will go into detail about the ribbons, so you
>can search to see the changes for yourself.
>
>—Ken
Posted by pereh
Jul 22, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Hello Manfred,
I too extremely dislike “The Ribbon”. But maybe it will be more flexible than is was. You may take a look at
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=888
Regards,
Peter.
Posted by Manfred
Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33 PM
Hi Steve,
sorry, but I was away from my computer(s). Others explained it well.
It’s like having every menu item always visible with an icon (seven or eight rows) - it makes me dizzy, and I find it extremely distracting.
I had a trial copy of Office 2007 on a new computer I bought about a year and a half ago.
It’s like all the bloat of these applications showing itself in all its garishness, like a bubble-gum machine for writing ...
It offends my sense of proportion ... I know this is subjective, but it’s not even easy to turn off.
Manfred
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Hi.
I am not a friend of the ribbons, either.
It is, however, really easy to minimize the ribbon: Just click on one of the “menu” titles above the buttons (don’t know what this is called in the English Office), and you have a menu bar instead of the “multi-functional bar”. To get back the ribbons, simply clicking on one of the menu names.
Franz
Posted by Manfred
Jul 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Hi,
I understand ... you can minimize it ... as I said it’s about a year and a half ago I used it.
Still, you cannot get rid of it. It’s just minimized. Whenever you want to invoke a seldom used command (the short-key of which you have not memorized), you have to activate it again.
Manfred