Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi...
by jmiserez on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:17AM
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* obvious to Word users
For complete novices, yes the UI is not very intuitive. But Word isn’t much better either.
I recently had to start using Word again at work and even though the ribbons seem intuitive and user-friendly, actually finding the feature I needed has not always been easy. I’ve had to Google quite a bit (the help is excellent though).
At least in LibreOffice everything is always in the menus and does not suddenly disappear if your window is not wide enough.
For complete novices, yes the UI is not very intuitive. But Word isn’t much better either.
I recently had to start using Word again at work and even though the ribbons seem intuitive and user-friendly, actually finding the feature I needed has not always been easy. I’ve had to Google quite a bit (the help is excellent though).
At least in LibreOffice everything is always in the menus and does not suddenly disappear if your window is not wide enough.