Much of my work goes to users of Microsoft Office. I edit many of these documents and create many more. I process a significant number of graphics-heavy documents each week that are produced with Microsoft Office. That prompted me to sit up straight and dig in with eyes wide open. This provides a way to customize a Quick Action Bar, customize the ribbon display choices, and show the Quick Action toolbar as a separate toolbar. Then I right-clicked on an item in the ribbon and discovered a pop-up menu. There are no cascading menus.Īt first, I did not like not having any customizations available for things like often-used actions. Click the action you want and instantly see it applied.
The labels are: File, Home, Insert, Layout, References, Mailings, Review and View. The ribbon interface gives users a different look and feel when creating or editing documents on the Linux desktop. Once I learned what was where, my appreciation for the “ribbon effect” grew. The lateral array of clickable menu choices changes with each toolbar category selected. You click on a category in the toolbar row at the top of the application window and then scan across the lateral display of boxed lists of functions. The process is a bit different than scrolling down drop-down menus. It took me some time to gegt used to the ribbon menu, since I was unfamiliar with using it on Microsoft Office, but I came to like it. Their user interfaces mimic standard drop-down menus.
I regularly use the latest version of LibreOffice and earlier versions of FreeOffice. So I took the free beta release of Office 2018 for a spin to check out the performance of the ribbon user interface. SoftMaker expects to release FreeOffice 2018 for Linux it at the end of the first quarter of 2018. The free version (FreeOffice 2018 for Linux) is not yet available for review. Previous releases required some 32-bit dependencies to run on 64-bit architecture. The value here is that the free open source and both commercial versions of the 2018 releases are true 64-bit products. So opting for the free versus paid versions of the 2018 office suites might be a no-brainer. When I reviewed SoftMaker FreeOffice 2016 and SoftMaker Office 2016, I found the paid and free versions to be almost identical in functionality and features. The Linux edition has the Thunderbird email management client. Both the free and the paid versions will contain fully functional TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentations, just like the paid Linux SoftMaker Office 2018 release. The exact feature list is not finalized yet, according to Sales Manager Jordan Popov. The FreeOffice 2018 release will have the same ribbon interface option as SoftMaker Office 2018.
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