Originally Posted by AlanCantor

If it's any consolation, after nearly 15 years of dealing with ribbons, I still don't find them as straightforward and easy to use as menus. I can't grasp the logic of their organization. For example, in Word, if I want to add a table to a document, I can't wrap my mind around why I can't go a Table ribbon.

And on the topic of the two Table ribbons, I'm constantly guessing when the item I'm looking for is related to the table's "Design" or to its "Layout."

I've experienced ribbons to be so ridiculous that I wrote my own menu system to perform everyday tasks. I use the ribbons to perform the tasks I perform infrequently. My menus might seem ridiculous to an outsider, but at least I have a mental map of where to find the commands I use all of the time.