[AccessD] Convert 2007/2010 to 2003

Kenneth Ismert kismert at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 18:20:06 CDT 2011


>
> Asger Blond:
> Intuition was the main reason for Microsoft when replacing the old menu UI
> with the ribbon UI.
> As a *design idea* the ribbon UI may be good. But as *implemented* it is
> just awful - i.e. the opposite of its idea: it's untidy, not intuitive.
> This is not special for Access - the implementation is just as careless in
> Excel.
>

With the ribbon, Microsoft completely catered to new users at the expense of
its huge existing base. The more of an Office power user you are, the harder
the transition is.

But the real poke in the eye is that they didn't even bother to provide a
transition tool -- something that would let you pick an option in the old
menu structure, then dynamically show it's new location in the ribbon.

Does such a utility exist?



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