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Jerry Hayes
Imagine the ribbon [optionally] looking snazzy with the new "shotgun"
approach and then working functionally *exactly* like the old ones at the
same time.
* You hit [Alt o] for Fomat and it switches to the Format tab, which
highlights like on mouseover.
* Everthing that was a submenu before is now one of the panels, yet you see
them all, so you can "find" things.
* The key that took you to a submenu before highlights and focuses the
panel, like it would in a mouseover and *now* the new shortcuts highlight,
because you're in this menu.
* Didn't mean to be here? Hit escape and these shortcuts go away, the panel
gets unfocused and you're back to having the tab highlighted.
Everyone's happy. New look. Same menu structure. Same key controls.
Got some things that you want to *not* have to go through a submenu for?
(Like in 2003, Insert:coMment or Insert:teXtbox don't have submenus. Well,
then have JUST THOSE FEW have speedkeys at the tab level or group those in a
separate panel, (separate panel would of course cost one more key).
approach and then working functionally *exactly* like the old ones at the
same time.
* You hit [Alt o] for Fomat and it switches to the Format tab, which
highlights like on mouseover.
* Everthing that was a submenu before is now one of the panels, yet you see
them all, so you can "find" things.
* The key that took you to a submenu before highlights and focuses the
panel, like it would in a mouseover and *now* the new shortcuts highlight,
because you're in this menu.
* Didn't mean to be here? Hit escape and these shortcuts go away, the panel
gets unfocused and you're back to having the tab highlighted.
Everyone's happy. New look. Same menu structure. Same key controls.
Got some things that you want to *not* have to go through a submenu for?
(Like in 2003, Insert:coMment or Insert:teXtbox don't have submenus. Well,
then have JUST THOSE FEW have speedkeys at the tab level or group those in a
separate panel, (separate panel would of course cost one more key).