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0 pointskayodelycaon4y ago0 comments

The review ribbon has been very convenient. I use it constantly as an author.

Flipping between landscape and portrait and changing margins isn’t buried in an obscure dialog box. (I do this often to make signs.)

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NonNefarious4y ago· 1 in thread

OK, I could see how review controls would be useful. Could they not be added to the toolbar before?

With due respect to your opinion, I don't think sign-making is a major use case for a word processor. I would think that a vector-art program would be far better suited to that, even a free one like Inkscape.

kayodelycaonOP4y ago

The ribbon interface is more than just buttons on a toolbar. It adds discoverability to many features I didn’t even know existed and I’ve used Word since Office 95. I find the differing visual layout to be a lot easier to read than a lot of similarly sized buttons.

Any place where people work will end up having signs. I’ve seen Word (and Google docs) used to make simple text signs and more complex ones using clip art. What I don’t see is a lot of signs being made. Not nearly enough to justify learning Inkscape.

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