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After 13 years there are still things I have trouble finding on the ribbon that were easy with the menu. And the ribbon totally kills the menu item->keyboard shortcut learning path to efficiently activate things you use in your personal workflow. I am bitter about this one too!

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Everything in the ribbon has a keyboard shortcut. Just type 'alt' to see the guides. You can also see traditional shortcuts in the tooltips.

The new 'Tell me what you want to do' search bar should help you find everything else obscure, but that unfortunately doesn't show keyboard shortcuts.

I think that's the difference with a lot of these things. If you are a primary keyboard user you tend to rage against a lot of these changes.

That may be a good guess: people who prefer words to pictures and keyboard to mouse would prefer menus to the ribbon. That pattern holds for me anyway. And I would believe that word/keyboard people are in the minority, so a UI study would identify the ribbon as superior.

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