Hi :) +1 Those things probably are there but it's a pain trying to find anything. 2007 is even worse than 2010!
I know one of them is that you have to keep going back to the "Home" tab in order to see the font, font-size and maybe paragraph-style at the cursor's location. What has always annoyed me about MSO is that style might change 4 times in 4 characters beside each other, possibly even within a single word. But that was 1 of the things we were grumbling about in the styles thread fairly recently. I'm just really glad i can stick with LibreOffice for pretty much everything now. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: MR ZenWiz <[email protected]> >To: LibreOffice <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 20:21 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO >alternative is not LO > > >I wasn't going to comment on this thread, but I just had to use Word10 >again for a company spec, and I have to say... > >One of the things about the ribbon that I find so annoying is that it >hides information. > >Yes, it is organized in a way that some people find convenient and MS >obviously loves - for now. > >But especially w.r.t. formatting and styles, I have the worst time >using it and most often resort to a nifty plugin that some brilliant >entrepreneur wrote and distributes for free that emulates the old >menus. > >Specifically, I have trouble with two pieces of the styles. > >One is that I can't tell from looking at even the expanded menu which >style the cursor paragraph is in. I'm pretty sure it is not my eyes or >color scheme, there's just no indication at all. It is also difficult >to see what the font and font-size are at a glance. All of these are >easily and prominently visible in the formatting toolbar that is >standard at the top of every document (in LO and any MSO before 2007). > >The other is when I want to use a style that isn't on the menu, but I >know is available. I've never been able to figure out how to find >them, where in the pre-ribbon menu system, I just click on the style >down-arrow on the formatting bar and poof. Even if it's not there, I >can click on the formatting styles icon on the same bar and it is >trivial to make everything show up. The ribbon just doesn't present >this capability, or it is so obscure that finding it is an adventure >all its own. > >There are many other things I dislike about the ribbon. The main one >is that the fundamental window toolbar style and >every-other-imaginable-kind-of-window-except-Chrome menu bar have been >around since the dawn of (all?) windowing systems, so around 30+ >years, but MS just couldn't make it better, they had to mangle it >completely and use the 2007 and newer versions to force users into >their new world. > >Whatever happened to meeting the users' needs, rather than mandating >their changes? > ></soapbox> > >Maybe I'm just a traditionalist, but I've seen the whole gamut from >CP/M (and older) to now, and the ribbon made a change that was >unnecessary, cryptic and only barely and narrowly easier to use than >the menus. > >Foo. > >Cheers! > >MR > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
