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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the
old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. There are three reasons for having the possibility of moving the ribbon aside (left or right): 1. when editing Word documents, spreadsheets that run on many rows/few columns, email messages, tables with many rows, and the like, the user wants as more vertical space available as possible 2. the spreading of widescreens in desktop PC and mostly notebooks (or netbooks with limited resolutions) changes the percentage of horizontale vs vertical room availability for the user interface - it is useless to have a document full-width, if I see only one-third of its vertical height at a time on the screen, to have the full view the zoom would be poor and not readable, having the ribbon on the side would improve this case 3. one difficulty most users encounter(ed) when changing from old-style menus to the ribbon interface is that they were used to select a menu, and then find the menu item they are looking for vertically (top to bottom among the items of the selected menu): moving the ribbon on the side (with a fixed width, of course) would benefit from both the innovative visual style of the ribbon, and single items (or ribbon sections) set in a vertical setting, top to bottom I suggest having the possibility of both left side or right side for the "vertical ribbons", so that left-hand and right-hand users (with different preferences of brain side to have focus on (main content/document vs toolbars/commands)) can choose what fits them better PS I really believe this upate would be a great benefit. I would like to be acknowledged for this suggestion, if accepted :-) Luca Santillo Italy ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.office.misc |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. Then minimize the ribbon. The tabs still show and just expand when they are clicked on - QED! |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. Then minimize the ribbon. The tabs still show and just expand when they are clicked on - QED! |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. Then minimize the ribbon. The tabs still show and just expand when they are clicked on - QED! |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. There are three reasons for having the possibility of moving the ribbon aside (left or right): 1. when editing Word documents, spreadsheets that run on many rows/few columns, email messages, tables with many rows, and the like, the user wants as more vertical space available as possible 2. the spreading of widescreens in desktop PC and mostly notebooks (or netbooks with limited resolutions) changes the percentage of horizontale vs vertical room availability for the user interface - it is useless to have a document full-width, if I see only one-third of its vertical height at a time on the screen, to have the full view the zoom would be poor and not readable, having the ribbon on the side would improve this case 3. one difficulty most users encounter(ed) when changing from old-style menus to the ribbon interface is that they were used to select a menu, and then find the menu item they are looking for vertically (top to bottom among the items of the selected menu): moving the ribbon on the side (with a fixed width, of course) would benefit from both the innovative visual style of the ribbon, and single items (or ribbon sections) set in a vertical setting, top to bottom I suggest having the possibility of both left side or right side for the "vertical ribbons", so that left-hand and right-hand users (with different preferences of brain side to have focus on (main content/document vs toolbars/commands)) can choose what fits them better PS I really believe this upate would be a great benefit. I would like to be acknowledged for this suggestion, if accepted :-) Luca Santillo Italy This makes a lot of sense to me. Personally, I hate the ribbons but if I have to have them, placing them on the side would be very beneficial. |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"Bogey Man" wrote in message ... "LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. There are three reasons for having the possibility of moving the ribbon aside (left or right): 1. when editing Word documents, spreadsheets that run on many rows/few columns, email messages, tables with many rows, and the like, the user wants as more vertical space available as possible 2. the spreading of widescreens in desktop PC and mostly notebooks (or netbooks with limited resolutions) changes the percentage of horizontale vs vertical room availability for the user interface - it is useless to have a document full-width, if I see only one-third of its vertical height at a time on the screen, to have the full view the zoom would be poor and not readable, having the ribbon on the side would improve this case 3. one difficulty most users encounter(ed) when changing from old-style menus to the ribbon interface is that they were used to select a menu, and then find the menu item they are looking for vertically (top to bottom among the items of the selected menu): moving the ribbon on the side (with a fixed width, of course) would benefit from both the innovative visual style of the ribbon, and single items (or ribbon sections) set in a vertical setting, top to bottom I suggest having the possibility of both left side or right side for the "vertical ribbons", so that left-hand and right-hand users (with different preferences of brain side to have focus on (main content/document vs toolbars/commands)) can choose what fits them better PS I really believe this upate would be a great benefit. I would like to be acknowledged for this suggestion, if accepted :-) Luca Santillo Italy This makes a lot of sense to me. Personally, I hate the ribbons but if I have to have them, placing them on the side would be very beneficial. You do know you can minimize the ribbon? |
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Ribbons should be transposed on the side in wide screens.
"Gordon" wrote in message ... "Bogey Man" wrote in message ... "LSantillo" wrote in message ... Although it is stated that a ribbon does not take more screen room than the old standard (2- or 3 actually) toolbars in previous Office versions, nowadays with widescreen any ribbon-bar or toolbar takes room where the users mostly need it: vertically. There are three reasons for having the possibility of moving the ribbon aside (left or right): 1. when editing Word documents, spreadsheets that run on many rows/few columns, email messages, tables with many rows, and the like, the user wants as more vertical space available as possible 2. the spreading of widescreens in desktop PC and mostly notebooks (or netbooks with limited resolutions) changes the percentage of horizontale vs vertical room availability for the user interface - it is useless to have a document full-width, if I see only one-third of its vertical height at a time on the screen, to have the full view the zoom would be poor and not readable, having the ribbon on the side would improve this case 3. one difficulty most users encounter(ed) when changing from old-style menus to the ribbon interface is that they were used to select a menu, and then find the menu item they are looking for vertically (top to bottom among the items of the selected menu): moving the ribbon on the side (with a fixed width, of course) would benefit from both the innovative visual style of the ribbon, and single items (or ribbon sections) set in a vertical setting, top to bottom I suggest having the possibility of both left side or right side for the "vertical ribbons", so that left-hand and right-hand users (with different preferences of brain side to have focus on (main content/document vs toolbars/commands)) can choose what fits them better PS I really believe this upate would be a great benefit. I would like to be acknowledged for this suggestion, if accepted :-) Luca Santillo Italy This makes a lot of sense to me. Personally, I hate the ribbons but if I have to have them, placing them on the side would be very beneficial. You do know you can minimize the ribbon? Yes, I know that. Minimizing it doesn't mean that it is out of the way when you actually want to make use of the commands on the ribbon. With most monitors being the wide variety these days, it just doesn't make sense to use valuable vertical space to display a large ribbon, even if you can minimize it when not in use. |
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