The recession is caused by the loss of productivity caused by having to adapt
to the Ribbon. The mixture of text and icons hurts my brain. There's too much
info, too much color, not enough contrast of text from background. UGH. You
guys give me a headache everytime I make a spreadsheet. Thanks Microsoft.

"you guys" on these newsgroups are not Microsoft employees and have no
control over the developers of Excel.

But you have a multitude of users who share your sentiments about "the
Ribbon" so don't head off to the orphanage just yet.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:28:01 -0700, Senior Excel Monkey <Senior Excel
wrote:

The recession is caused by the loss of productivity caused by having to adapt
to the Ribbon. The mixture of text and icons hurts my brain. There's too much
info, too much color, not enough contrast of text from background. UGH. You
guys give me a headache everytime I make a spreadsheet. Thanks Microsoft.

He forgot to mention the additional wasted time caused by 2007 users sending
..xlsx and .xlsm files to pre-2007 users who haven't installed the
compatibility pack and then having to exchange flurries of emails trying to
figure out how to read one another's files.

Signed,
Not a MSFT Employee Either,
Just Someone Who Has To Help Make It Work In the Real World

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

"you guys" on these newsgroups are not Microsoft employees and have no
control over the developers of Excel.

But you have a multitude of users who share your sentiments about "the
Ribbon" so don't head off to the orphanage just yet.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:28:01 -0700, Senior Excel Monkey <Senior Excel
wrote:

The recession is caused by the loss of productivity caused by having to adapt
to the Ribbon. The mixture of text and icons hurts my brain. There's too much
info, too much color, not enough contrast of text from background. UGH. You
guys give me a headache everytime I make a spreadsheet. Thanks Microsoft.