Microsoft Office interface

Which do you prefer: the Ribbon or the old-style drop-down menus?

Neither. I'm still using a DOS-era command-line-interface word processor called XyWrite. It can do anything MS-office can do, better. And it never crashed, not once in 25 years.

Originally posted by moonbus
Neither. I'm still using a DOS-era command-line-interface word processor called XyWrite. It can do anything MS-office can do, better. And it never crashed, not once in 25 years.

Well I'm still using a sharpened reed and clay tablets. I just thought I'd see what the muggins' preferences are.

Originally posted by moonbus
Neither. I'm still using a DOS-era command-line-interface word processor called XyWrite. It can do anything MS-office can do, better. And it never crashed, not once in 25 years.

Then again, how would you have any idea of what Office can do?

Been there, got frustrated, deleted it, went back to DOS.

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Then again, how would you have any idea of what Office can do?

Clearly he doesn't, if he thinks a word processor, let alone a DOS-era one, can replicate every feature of the Office suite.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Clearly he doesn't, if he thinks a word processor, let alone a DOS-era one, can replicate every feature of the Office suite.

On the other hand, he may have little use for the apps of Office. If you only use a word processor to, *gasp*, process words, write down for stories or homework and that's it, what use would excel or powerpoint do you?

Originally posted by sonhouse
On the other hand, he may have little use for the apps of Office. If you only use a word processor to, *gasp*, process words, write down for stories or homework and that's it, what use would excel or powerpoint do you?

That's true enough, but he did say 'It can do anything MS-office can do, better.' Patently not true.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
That's true enough, but he did say 'It can do anything MS-office can do, better.' Patently not true.

And still patently untrue even if he had said "MSWord" instead of "MSOffice". Any semi-experienced Word user can tell you this.

Back to the original topic - I preferred the original menus, because I had the accelerator key sequences memorized [alt-O-P to format a paragraph, and so on].

The ribbon is probably easier to learn for n00bs. I've learned it because I want the new features in the new SW. But I'm never going to be as fast with it as I was with the old shortcut keys.