"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <pdschmid@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> There are a lot of things wrong with the menus & toolbars UI for Office.
> If you are interested in reading the background on the Ribbon UI, see
> http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/09/58. It's an index to the blog posts of
> the PM in charge of the Ribbon UI. His blog gives a lot of the background
> of the Ribbon and talks a lot about its design. It makes for quite some
> interesting reading.

Thanks.

>> A month? A week for no real improvement is too long.

> Back in beta 1, the Office apps were crashing all the time. It's quite
> hard to learn a new UI when you have a crash every few minutes then file a
> bug for it, etc.

There should be no need to "learn a new UI".

Can you tell me for instance how one would add a signature MANUALLY
to an email without touching the Mouse and without memorize a specific
key?

(This was trivial in all other versions of Outlook, just Alt-Insert and down
or accelerator visable on the screen menu etc.)

And now do the same for all of those other commands on the menus?

>> Then there should be an option to restore it.

> Read the reasoning behind the Ribbon UI. In short, MS designed a new UI
> because they didn't know anymore how to put all the new 2007 features in a
> reasonable way into the old one.

And thus they have managed to make "all the new features" even harder to
use -- especially the common ones in favor of the esoteric being added.


> BTW, you can create a resemblance of the old UI on the Ribbon. You'd have
> to use RibbonX for it (the new customization model), it will take quite a
> bit to do it and it won't look exactly like 2003, but it can be done.

As long as I can get the KEYBOARD to work resonably similarly and
reasonably visually.