A Ribbon Gotcha!

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I ran into an interesting foible using the Ribbon in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 today. I'm generally a big fan of the Ribbon in Office, but today it got the best of me. Hopefully this post will help you avoid this pitfall if you use it the same way I do.

The "gotcha" stems from the fact that I tend to use the Ribbon in "minimized" mode. I like this mode because it lets me reserve the vast majority of my screen real-estate for my content in my window, and I can still get at all the Ribbon stuff in a single