Microsoft Office Word with the ribbon bar in its default state While the ribbon interface takes up a bit more space, it can be hidden away when not needed in order to give me more room when I’m doing simple writing tasks. My reason behind this is the sheer fact that I as the end-user can access features and functions in logical menus with just a couple of clicks, whereas the Numbers product in the iWork suite requires me to dig into menus to do what many would consider to be simple tasks. While I wasn’t a huge fan of it at the time myself, the ribbon UI truly has won me over, at least for Microsoft Word. For many, the ribbon was seen as a huge annoyance because of the space that it took up on the screen and the fact that it completely re-arranged an application that people had spent years familiarizing themselves with and learning in and out.
Microsoft word vs apple pages Pc#
When I first tried Microsoft Office 2007 on the PC side a number of years back, the “ribbon” interface was a relatively new concept and had yet to really catch on with end-users. But how did it hold up against Microsoft Office for Mac?
Microsoft word vs apple pages for mac#
The other day though I downloaded the iWork ’09 (the latest version) trial from Apple‘s website so that I could get a feel for Apple’s alternative after using Office for Mac for over a month. Of course I toyed around with OpenOffice/LibreOffice while I was using the Linux operating system, but Microsoft Office has always seemed like more of a “standard” for me something that could be used with ease for basic tasks yet offered the functionality to conform to whatever else was thrown at it. Having been a user of Microsoft Office since I began using computers, I personally have never had that much of a reason to look at anything else. But even with Microsoft Office being the dominant office suite, it’s not unusual for people to look at other suites and products simply to get a feel of exactly what else is out there. With office suites dating so far back, it’s amazing to see how the everyday productivity applications that we as computer users have woven deeply into our everyday lives have gone so far over the last decade or so. Word processors and spreadsheet applications have been around forever, and visual presentation applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint have become standard components of every office suite on the market today. Look at your standard office suite for example. Sure, computer presence in office environment grows on a daily basis as we as society work towards a paperless lifestyle but the reality is that many of the business features that we see in “modern” workplace computers existed ten, maybe twenty years ago.
Before social media and before online videos and Internet-connected games computers were primarily found in offices and businesses for processing data and handling other mundane tasks.
When we look at modern-age computer programs it is often a challenge to think back to the “simpler” times when computers and technology revolved solely around the purpose of making our day-to-day lives easier.
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