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Improving the MS Office ribbon

Three things to do about ribbon to make it usable:

1) Add traditional 'New', 'Open', 'Save', 'Save as' buttons through 'Customize the ribbon':

File section

2) Revert 'Open' and 'Save' dialogs to traditional form (the new form is called "Backstage"): "File | Options | Save | Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files"

This way Open and Save buttons open the file dialog directly (instead of weeding through File | Open | Computer | Browse)

3) Add 'Clear Formats' button, which deserves to be a big button on its own rather than a small icon inside yet another small icon 'Clear':

Format section
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Published

Nov 10, 2016

Last Updated

2019-12-16 00:41:49.247574+07:00

Category

software

Tags

  • backstage 1
  • clear 1
  • microsoft 1
  • office 1
  • ribbon 1
  • save 1
  • windows 3
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