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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Need some help. In most places, people write about the various menus in the
> ribbon as "tabs", and the groups on the tabs as (appropriately) "groups".
> (I've also seen the tabs referred to as "pages" - I think that would
> introduce confusion to users so I'm not going to use that term, unless that
> would be completely rogue of me - let me know.)
>
> My question -- I couldn't find terminology for context-sensitive tabs that
> have more than one tab. What would you call these? Sub-tabs? Or would you
> call the big contextual menu something else, besides a tab?
>
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