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        <title><![CDATA[It is just me?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is just me or does anyone else find it odd that most of the posts that extol the virtues of the Ribbon add somewhere in their post how ease the ribbon is once you set up the QAT, you know the Only Toolbar MS Left Us With. I love it. The ribbon is great once you ignore it and use the toolbar.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl.Lee4@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:58:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's all about tablets and touchscreens]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3521719]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm convinced that tablets and touchscreens are huge drivers for the ribbon interface. There's a really well written MSDN blog article by Steven Sinofsky about the design process for adding the ribbon interface to Explorer in Windows 2008. In it he observes that &quot;...while not primarily a touch interface, the ribbon also provides a much more reliable and usable touch-only interface than pull-down menus and context menus.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JavaJobber]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:18:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maybe try developing a stylesheet?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you list the styles used in the document in a stylesheet, and ask them to use your styles - it might work. That's what I do, though I must admit, usually within one project. Most legal documents I have seen only need half a dozen styles, so it can't be too difficult.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jonc2011]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:40:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[WordPerfect killed by Word monopoly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had WordPerfect on my desk from 1989 through 2002 and liked it a lot.  But because NONE of our clients kept it, we had to convert to Word.  That was a rude shock because Word was so obviously primitive compared to WordPerfect.  And Word is just plain BADLY DESIGNED.  The epitome of how illiterate, lazy and inconsiderate geeks with zero aesthetic taste can foist non-ergonomic crap on the rest of us.  The only reason we are discussing this retro, deficient product is that it's a monopoly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[glnz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:53:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[NOBODY uses them &amp;quot;correctly&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ssharkins - see my Reply to jonc2011 below.  Your &quot;correct&quot; is my nightmare.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[glnz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:49:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Styles suck because they are not limited to one company]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hey, jonc2011, how is it for you when you email your beautifully styled document to two other people, they revise it using their own styles (very badly, with manual formatting also), send it to three other people, who do the same, and it comes back to you for further work?  That's what we lawyers do 24/7.  A freaking mess that our secretaries cannot fix.  Be thankful you work in a bubble.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:47:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's definitely worth mentioning and should help a lot of folks!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ssharkins@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:33:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hmmmmmmm?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3504082]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I went to the September 26th repost of this article and forwarded it to someone who stopped by my desk quite spontaneosly to complain about MSWord 2007 and how hard it is to set up document characteristics that were easy to set up in Office 2003. I forwarded it to show him he was not at all alone.  Then I went and looked for the comment that was particularly pertinent to his complaint.  SHOCK!!!  All the posts on that page had been deleted.Yesterday there were multiple posts out there commenting about the max bogusness of content in this blog post and how it showed TechRepublic to be a Microsoft advertising mechanism.  Where, oh where did those little posts go? Oh where, oh where can they be?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zimmerwoman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:07:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree - Office 2010 is for dummies (or beginners)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[However, once you really get to understand the quick access toolbar, customizing of the ribbon and importing speed keys and macros from 2003, you can make it work almost as well as 2003. But how many people do that?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jonc2011]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:52:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ribbons made for the dumb]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe u/soft went to ribbons to make life easier for the dumbed down population who can't understand words and need pictures to show them what things are. The ribbon wastes screen space, is not logical (not to me anyway) and is very obtuse at times.When I sit down at a new computer that I'm going to use for some time I always set up custom toolbars, then I have the commands I want and don't clutter things with stuff I don't use.Oh well, let's go and look at open office.PS The big joke is that like the woman who wrote the article praising the ribbon, I also earn a crust writing technical manuals.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[drawman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:17:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I still prefer Office 2003...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...because I work faster with it than in 2007 or up.  It's been said before, if it's not broken, don't fix it.  The logical menus are still easier (for me) to navigate than the new menu layout in 2007/up, and I know exactly where i need to go even for features I'm not very familiar with; I just learn along the way!  That's why up to now, I use 2003.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mac021]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:42:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Useless help]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3495562]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm a technical communicator. One of my friends and colleagues used to work in Redmond. When she went to complain to one of the &quot;responsible&quot; people about help (we're going back a long way, now, but still...) she was told, &quot;it doesn't matter - they'll buy it anyway, we're Microsoft.&quot; With attitudes like that inside, you can understand...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[techwriter@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:49:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm a big fan]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It was scary to make the switch but once I jumped over to Office 2010 there's no looking back.  It is far more user friendly and I love the quick access toolbar.  I rarely look elsewhere for the things I use all the time because they are easily put on my QAT.  For those of you who don't like having the ribbon taking up so much screen geography, change it so it only shows up when you hover over it.  That's easy enough to do.  We do not have an exchange server in our organization anymore though.  We kissed Outlook goodbye and went with Google Apps.....another huge improvement for email and calendar and other things.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[carola@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:43:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What I like about ribbon Office]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3495208]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Absolutely nuttin'! It's just like reinventing the wheel and the new one is octagonal. Useless! I've switched to LibreOffice. It works. It has a familiar menu system. And, best of all, it's way, way cheaper than MS Office. It's free!!! Way to go Microsoft! You've saved me a bundle.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob-El]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:16:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hate it, hate it, hate it. Stupid Microsoft goons!!!!!!!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3495079]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I can't seem to get the hang of the ribbon system. I've installed Ubitmenu to rescue me from the chaotic collection of icons that forever seem to be missing when I need a specific one. Now with free of cost Ubitmenu which brings back the familiar pulldown menus I can find every menu item that I often use and the ones I can't find take just a few seconds to locate.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lloyddrose@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:15:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ribbon easier for new users]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347911-3494969]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[as a trainer, I think the ribbon interface is a fabulous improvement, and makes the applications much easier to learn for NEW users.  For those of you complaining about the space used by the ribbon, HIDE IT so it's not taking up space when you don't need it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sbmknight]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:38:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Agree!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ribbon hogs the screen and you can't get rid of it. In Menu days, I had learned the Alt-shortcuts for the features I used. They still work on Word/07 but I can't get rid of the annoying ribbon. To me, the ribbon is nothing more than a new menu hierarchy that consumes more screen space than the menus used to, and the ribbon options are in different places that are not intuitive. Invariably, for most things I do from the ribbon, I end up Googling an answer for how to do it.I used to know &quot;how to drive&quot; Word. Then Microsoft &quot;removed the steering wheel&quot; and replaced it with &quot;multi handle bulldozer steering&quot;. I can hack my way along, but it used to be a lot easier with the controls I had learned for the last 20+ years. I've been using Word since DOS days, and since Word for Windows 1.0. As of Word 2007, I am much less efficient than ever before, (no) thanks to the ribbon.So for my $0.02, I use fewer advanced features in W/2007 because of the ribbon, and the decrease in my productivity because of it. Flash and glitz, marketing hype, and the net result is a loss.  Thumbs down.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:21:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[M$ think everyone is a stupid as them]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I tried a free trial of Office 2007. Couldn't find the superscript &amp; subscript functions, and found they were *fobidden* on the ribbon. Perhaps it's the global warming denial twits who got it fixed so you couldn't type CO2 correctly.I tried to buy the paid version, though only because some friends and colleagues had to use it. Impossible to install this on Vista because M$ were incapable of cleanly uninstalling their own trial version. Saved 100 euros. I then found out that as an organiser of a very small charitable association I should have been paying the full prohibively exorbitant price anyway.Who do you have to bribe to capture a large part of the World market, and an even larger part of the commercial market, for such expensive and user-hostile software, when you can get alternatives that are only a little bit frustrating without paying a penny?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daddy Tadpole]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:18:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ubitmenu is free.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:42:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fine for home use...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Aren't most of us ITs here? And, do most of us just let employees go online and install what they want on our network? Don't know about you but I'd be out of a job by sundown!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:27:05 -0700</pubDate>
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