The Ribbon

Y

YDOD

I too hate the ribbon. Many years ago it was discovered that the best
interface was a a row of drop down menus. Each item on the menu should be
alternatively accessible by a 2 or 3 letter code. That code should be shown
alongside each menu item. The menu items should not change to suit context
or whatever. How can anyone remember where things are when they keep
changing! I wish they would stop changing the interface as a futile attempt
to try to justify issuing another version. I would like to tell them where
they can stick their icons! At least if it is a word you can look it up in
the help., but an icon! the damn thing just sits there.
 
F

FSt1

hi
now that your are through venting....let me vent.
by now we all should realize that so much has changed that the new excel is
a brand new application masquerading as the old excel. from my management
training i was told that redical change too often brings more problems that
it sets out to solve. change should be managed, phased in, ideally...snuck in
the back door so that no one notices.
but we now seem to see all the problems that 2007 seems to have brought and
are a little foggy about what problems it set out to solve.

someone enlighten me.
please.

regards
FSt1
 
J

JLatham

As best as I can determine, the problem it solved was one of employment.
With the deployment of Excel 2007, the folks in the Help Desk division of the
IT/IS support department are guaranteed income for quite some time.
I've examined the ribbon and as near as I can tell it was designed to give
the NOVICE user fast ability to find basic functions with default settings
(determined to be the default by Heaven only knows who). This was no doubt
insidiously designed to bring the novice on equal footing with the veteran
user who could find his way through the drop downs with their eyes closed.
Now they are both helplessly lost about 85% of the time - click .. ring ...
yes, Help Desk? Job security. I figure that same 85% has the Help Desk on
speed dial.
And if Insert Page Break is on the Insert tab, why is it along with insert
Section Break and so many others on the "page layout" tab?
Should I even start in on all the lost time and effort put into designing
custom menus for individual worksheets in all those archaic versions of Excel
- you remember, the ones that you could actually tell which cells you had
selected?
[steps down off of soap box]
 
F

FSt1

your observation about the help desk is the best explination i have heard to
date.
did Bill forsee the current economic situation??? prase Bill.
yet based on what i was taught, i still cannot understand why microsoft
would introduce such a radical brake. yes put the novice on level ground but
what about the experieced user who is now total confused needing this site to
find out where everything got moved to....
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101491511033.aspx
i wonder how many departments and businesses have been shut down because of
severe confusion thinking they were getting something better instead of
something different????
I could go on and on but i suspect that 2007 is here to stay so i will just
shut up now. i'm sure a lot of you out that will be thankful of that. no
applause necessary.

sigh
[stepping down off MY soap box]

regards
FSt1

JLatham said:
As best as I can determine, the problem it solved was one of employment.
With the deployment of Excel 2007, the folks in the Help Desk division of the
IT/IS support department are guaranteed income for quite some time.
I've examined the ribbon and as near as I can tell it was designed to give
the NOVICE user fast ability to find basic functions with default settings
(determined to be the default by Heaven only knows who). This was no doubt
insidiously designed to bring the novice on equal footing with the veteran
user who could find his way through the drop downs with their eyes closed.
Now they are both helplessly lost about 85% of the time - click .. ring ...
yes, Help Desk? Job security. I figure that same 85% has the Help Desk on
speed dial.
And if Insert Page Break is on the Insert tab, why is it along with insert
Section Break and so many others on the "page layout" tab?
Should I even start in on all the lost time and effort put into designing
custom menus for individual worksheets in all those archaic versions of Excel
- you remember, the ones that you could actually tell which cells you had
selected?
[steps down off of soap box]


FSt1 said:
hi
now that your are through venting....let me vent.
by now we all should realize that so much has changed that the new excel is
a brand new application masquerading as the old excel. from my management
training i was told that redical change too often brings more problems that
it sets out to solve. change should be managed, phased in, ideally...snuck in
the back door so that no one notices.
but we now seem to see all the problems that 2007 seems to have brought and
are a little foggy about what problems it set out to solve.

someone enlighten me.
please.

regards
FSt1
 

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