Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
by edoloughlin on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:43AM
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My guess is that more people learned to use office after 2007 than before, so the majority of people have no problems using the ribbon.
Or, perhaps they are just used to a lower level of productivity? I've had 13 years to adapt, and I still find it frustrating.
On the other hand I found it instantly more productive, even right after it was introduced. No longer did I have to remember which menu an option was in. It was all right there.
It's not all right there - some things are under another ribbon tab, which doesn't seem all that different from putting things in a collection of menus. (Except that visually it's now a jumbled mess instead of a clean and easy-to-scan linear list.)
> Except that visually it's now a jumbled mess instead of a clean and easy-to-scan linear list
I think I find the "jumbled mess" easier to scan because my memory is visual, and the items are visually distinct. On the other hand, with a list I actually have to read every item.
Not sure why this got downvoted — a personal anecdote as a reply to personal anecdote.
On the subject — I’ve learned the “classic” office but really like the ribbon. I’m not a power user though — just a doc or a spreadsheet every now and then.
I learned on the pre-2007 interface, and (at least for Word) I would go back to the Word for DOS keyboard-based interface including the little template you put on your keyboard.
> My guess is that more people learned to use office after 2007 than before, so the majority of people have no problems using the ribbon.
Or maybe they didn't have other options...
My guess is that more people learned to use office after 2007 than before, so the majority of people have no problems using the ribbon.
I still yearn for ms-word on dos, and oracle forms on terminal interfaces, once you learned the keyboard shortcuts, nothing was faster. Kind of like knowing vi(m).