RE: Documenting two similar interfaces

Subject: RE: Documenting two similar interfaces
From: Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: <su_duncan -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:41:06 -0400


See

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=799&zoneid=12

and

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=502&z=12

for information on two solutions that the good people at Office Watch seem to like. Toward the bottom of these pages you'll also find links to other Office Watch articles relating to ribbon alternatives and customizations.

-Fred Ridder


> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:57:27 -0700
> From: su_duncan -at- yahoo -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Documenting two similar interfaces
> To: DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; lauren -at- writeco -dot- net
>
> Is there an add-in that restores the old non-ribbon toolbar? Can you point me toward a download site?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan
>
> --- On Wed, 6/24/09, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
> Subject: RE: Documenting two similar interfaces
> To: "'Dan Goldstein'" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 6:47 PM
>
>
> > From: Dan Goldstein
>
> > LOL. Google to the rescue...
> >
> > "Office 2007 ribbon" good: 20,400 results
> > "Office 2007 ribbon" bad: 1,990 results
> >
> > Completely anecdotal, unreliable, and unscientific. As you say, this
> > isn't for a PhD dissertation, but it should be good enough for a beer
> > bet.
>
> I'll drink to that. ;-)
>
> I think that the Office ribbon is effective for people who have *no*
> experience with Office, they loathe Office, or they simply want something
> completely different. I think that most people who use Office on a daily
> basis would prefer the original interface because we know where everything
> is. Personally, I do not mind that MS adds items to the toolbars, but to
> completely change the toolbars into something absolutely unintuitive for the
> veteran Office user is absolutely moronic. The learning curve of the
> "ribbon" is so much longer than configuring Office 2007 with an add-in that
> restores the toolbars and in reverting to older versions of Office, that it
> is not worth the effort to me. I am looking for an effective Office-like
> mini-app or Java-app that I can keep on my thumb drive so that I do not need
> to deal with client mistakes of using Office 2007.
>
> Lauren
>
>
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Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

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