TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
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.
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/
---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as su_duncan -at- yahoo -dot- com -dot-
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/
---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-
