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LibreOffice 4.0 releasedLibreOffice 4.0 releasedPosted Feb 10, 2013 5:53 UTC (Sun) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: LibreOffice 4.0 released by louie Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0 released
I think the ribbon is a genuine, major improvement, but that a lot of experienced users took a long time to warm up to it because it's such a big change. Once you get used to it, though, it's clearly better, especially if you're doing a whole series of operations that use the same class of commands (e.g. a whole bunch of formatting).
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LibreOffice 4.0 released Posted Feb 11, 2013 12:12 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>I think the ribbon is a genuine, major improvement, but that a lot of experienced users took a long time to warm up to it because it's such a big change.
I agree, but I think a large part of the problem is that it was released half-baked. In Office 2007 the ribbon was barely customisable, so you ended up with the worst of both worlds; in 2010 I think it's a great example of good UI design which is both relatively user-friendly and relatively powerful. It's not outstanding in either regard, but I think it *is* outstanding in how well it's made the trade-off.
Office 2010 is the first Microsoft product that to me feels like a real professional tool, despite its remaining flaws.
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