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Poll: What's your least favorite component of MS Office

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Re: Poll: What's your least favorite component of MS Office

#3
Powerpoint, not for usability, but for the many terrible presentations I've had to sit through. I'm ambivalent on the UX because I rarely have to use it, but the dull meetings it's created have caused me an intense dislike of it.

That said, I'm still not fond of the Ribbon UI in general. Maybe it's just me, but I find text in a column easier to scan than a bunch of icons, most of which are hidden.

Re: Poll: What's your least favorite component of MS Office

#9
I tend to avoid them all. Though the other day I had to make a simple chart with excel (no problem for me in libreoffice or in the old versions of excel), and I just couldn't figure out how to change the scaling of an axis.

Eventually I found it. Not in a context menu anywhere, but somewhere in the ribbons, through an obscure "current selection" area, a place I would have never looked at on my own.

On the other hand I was pretty impressed by the change tracking feature in Word. Much more understandable for non-geeks than traditional source control.

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