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Originally Posted by Christien

Yes, absolutely. It took me a while to get used to the ribbon, but I use it fluently now. My question is why bother? I can't see any advantage to it over the traditional pull-down menus (in fact some tasks take longer, and I have yet to discover any that are shorter) so why make users learn a completely new system for accessing commands and tools? Seems like change for the sake of change, something I expect more from politicians trying to keep their jobs.

I don't think the changes are for computer people. The big changes like the 2003-->2007 gui changes are for the general public. If it's not like WWE with lots of flashy crap, they won't buy it. If it looks like the same old thing, they don't think there's a reason.

Take most computer people. If you can leave the interface the same but make the program faster and/or more efficient, that would be perfect for us.