Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C...
by zamalek on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:49PM
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> The old menu styles made each function roughly equal in their level.
The ribbon is nothing more than a menu laid out in a grid, rather than a list.
The tool I'm referring to is the search box. It should be on the window chrome, alongside the ribbon tabs. You can find verification of that claim in your copy of Word, or basically any screenshot of it. The source is that it exists.
Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C...
by marcosdumay on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:52AM
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> laid out in a grid, rather than a list
Hum... Yes. That's probably a major reason why it's harder to search.
I never used Word until recently, or any wysiwyg Word processor really.
The ribbon is just confusing. It so happens many of the functions I use are not surfaced, so I have to remember which tiny expando angle to click and that a function I use often is demoted in a ribbon to a smaller icon.
It is pain. Some functions are more visible and surfaced at the expense of added friction in the others. Which functions are surfaced is guess work and statistics. Outliers suffer.
The old menu styles made each function roughly equal in their level.
I could customise the ribbon, but then when I Google how to do something, my menus don't match the examples!
Madness