Put the Quick-launch Ctrl+Q bar into office and I'll be happy. I'm not an office power-user but trying to figure out where the Word-Wrap option is in Outlook beat me the other day and I resorted to copy-paste into Notepad++ (P.S. If anyone knows WHERE this option is I'd appreciate a heads-up). If I could just go Ctrl+Q,"Word Wrap" and have the program understand what the heck I mean that would make my life much much easier. In fact, do away with shortcut keys for most things. A reasonable predictive text algorithm and a drop-down is all the UI I need (apparent after 2 years with Launchy). Allow the app to look at the keys I use most often and suggest shortcut chords on the 20th invocation of a command or something. If I'm logging into Windows 8 with my Live ID (or whatever it's called now that the Live brand is going away) store it in my SkyDrive (if *that* name is sticking around) and I'll have a truly portable productivity experience. <http://codermike.com>
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes <l...@datarev.com.au> wrote: > >> David Connors wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au<mailto: >>> il.tho...@iinet.net.au**>> wrote: >>> >>> At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have >>> anything to do with its adoption? >>> >>> I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite and should be dropped into a bin >>> along with The Ribbon. The fact they are farting around with colour >>> selection while you still have to run VS.NET <http://VS.NET> as >>> administrator for some types of development is insane. >>> >>> I actually like the Ribbon. >> >> Over the past 3 years I've done some heavy MS Office development with >> tight application integration and find that the Ribbon lets me make useful >> and simple interfaces easily. >> >> MS certainly could have done some better work when placing some of the >> functionality when they moved to the ribbon, but overall I think it's >> actually quite decent. >> >> > Mostly I can live with Office. Just quit re-arranging it. > > >> P.S. Friday Flamewar already? :P >> > > Never too soon to start. > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills > >
