Publisher 2007 Needs the Ribbon

[Sneakyllama]

Please put the Ribbon menu system in Publisher. It is like taking a time
machine backward in time when switch from Word 2007 to Publisher 2007 .

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Steve Walker

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...4e-ebc041000b92&dg=microsoft.public.publisher

 

[Mary Sauer]

Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

 

[Ed Bennett]

Please put the Ribbon menu system in Publisher. It is like taking a
time machine backward in time when switch from Word 2007 to Publisher
2007 .

If you fancy waiting until 2010 for Publisher 2007, then it might be able to
be put in. Otherwise, it ain't going to happen.

Major features are finalised before a product even gets to Beta 1. Office
2007 is now at Beta 2, and the only changes that are likely to happen are
minor features and bug fixes. A major architectural change would require
going back to square 1, and would introduce massive numbers of bugs.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You explained that quite nicely.

 

[Michael]

So Why exactly did MS scrap the Ribbon for Publisher 2007?

 

[Ed Bennett]

So Why exactly did MS scrap the Ribbon for Publisher 2007?

Because they wanted to introduce new features into Publisher 2007 (including
PDF export).

The Publisher team simply didn't have the resources to both introduce the
new UI AND add more features, and the features won.

 

[miloush]

On the Jensen's blog, I wrote:
Firstly when I saw the Publisher doesn't have Ribbon I was quite sad, but
during the work I do in it almost every day I've realized that it would slow
me down a lot in this application.
I definitely love Ribbon and I think it absolutely rocks :] however the same
way I think that tasks which are being done in Publisher much more need all
icons to be prepared to use than contextual changes of the UI. Simply because
there are just a lot of them which are applicable all the time, irrespective
of the context.

Jan