Kevin's Watch

If you get (or have) MS Office 2010, there's a training module for learning the ribbon that's actually kind of fun. It's a free download.

www.ribbonhero.com

Our IT department gave us a heads-up about it, as we're moving to Office 2010 (from Office 2003 -- nothing like living in the Stone Age ) later this year.

I always just minimise the ribbon, and make a custom toolbar with all the main functions on it (open/save/print, undo/redo, cut/copy/paste, font options, alignment, borders, etc). Only open the ribbon for less commonly used functions. I find it much quicker to use an old-style toolbar where all the commonly used stuff's on the same page and none of it has been seperated off into another category.

“This simple game is probably the most human thing to come out of Microsoft in years”

I feel like this is a rather funny bit of praise to actually post on the website.

I'm playing it and it's kinda fun.

Ribbon, schmibon...

I had to convert three different applications, all with large custom menues from access 2000 to access 2k10. So, if you guys have ribbon questions, shoot One more gray hair won't hurt.

Edit: So much for "There's no way I'm learning the ins and outs of XML. I'm way to old for that shit"

Prebe wrote:Ribbon, schmibon...

I had to convert three different applications, all with large custom menues from access 2000 to access 2k10. So, if you guys have ribbon questions, shoot One more gray hair won't hurt.

Edit: So much for "There's no way I'm learning the ins and outs of XML. I'm way to old for that shit"

Oh my... you have my sympathy.

Much appreciated Ananda. Luckily it's over now.

Prebe wrote:Ribbon, schmibon...

I had to convert three different applications, all with large custom menues from access 2000 to access 2k10. So, if you guys have ribbon questions, shoot One more gray hair won't hurt.

Edit: So much for "There's no way I'm learning the ins and outs of XML. I'm way to old for that shit"

Good luck with that. Every MS UI now is based on XML in some fashion or another.

Yeah, they are completely obsessed with it at Bill-Co. And as you can guess I have thrown in the towel. Even contemplating uploading all our documents to SQLserver tables as the XML-datattype in stead of binary. So it's not just the UI.

I converted to OpenOffice when the first non-backwards compatible MSOffice came out. Screw them.

--A

I wish I had that choice Av. I don't. At least not if I want to keep my current position. But, hey... wait...

Avatar wrote:I converted to OpenOffice when the first non-backwards compatible MSOffice came out. Screw them.

--A

Isn't it LibreOffice now? That's what I use still from that same team, I thought.

Weird. No, they appear to be two identical but different things or something:

www.openoffice.org

www.libreoffice.org

I'm going to guess that since openoffice is free open source, libreoffice just took it and offered it as well.

I base this assumption on the fact that the OpenOffice site is 10 years older than the LibreOffice one.

Effectively the same thing obviously. Even the icons are the same.

Prebe wrote:But, hey... wait...

Hahahaha.

--A

Avatar wrote:Weird. No, they appear to be two identical but different things or something:

www.openoffice.org

www.libreoffice.org

I'm going to guess that since openoffice is free open source, libreoffice just took it and offered it as well.

I base this assumption on the fact that the OpenOffice site is 10 years older than the LibreOffice one.

Effectively the same thing obviously. Even the icons are the same.

Prebe wrote:But, hey... wait...

Hahahaha.

--A

I thought they switched because Sun was purchased?

If they did, then the OpenOffice site wouldn't be around. Also, that site says nothing about the document foundation or whatever, but the Libre site is full of it.

--A