Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Thu Aug 30 13:08:23 CDT 2007
Hmm -- good point. I didn't like the "personalized" menus one bit, especially not when I was teaching newbies how to use a program. Having the placement (or even appearance) of commands on menus be unreliable was way too confusing for my students. So, I taught them how to turn that stuff off. This should be an interesting discussion. Tina Charlotte Foust wrote: > I have to disagree. Perhaps if we'd all been weaned on Macs, we'd like > it, but then I never liked the Mac's "intuitive" UI either. The ribbon > is the next logical step from personalized menus, which I also hated. > With the kind of confusion personalized menus tended to cause, you'd > think they would have thought long and hard before dumping the ribbon on > us, but I doubt that they did. Now you see it, now you don't is great > for stage magicians but not for software developers. > > Charlotte Foust > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris > Fields > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:58 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] What problems converting A2K3 mdb to A2K7? > > Susan, > If the ribbon had been there all along, everyone would like it. Don't > you think it's just the change that people object to? Once we get used > to it, we'll gripe when we have to use an older version that doesn't > have it. I know I've been guilty of such gripes, anyway. :) Tina > > Susan Harkins wrote: > >> The biggest PITA was figuring out where the menu items are in 2007. >> >> ========I know I'm committing Access hari-kari, but I like the 2007 >> > ribbon. > >> :) >> >> Susan H. >> >> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >