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I think Apple’s approach to menus is preferable - one can search and it will highlight places in the menu where the term appears. Usually I know what I want to do, I just don’t know where it’s located in the menu.

For MS products I end up Googling how to do something and invariably get instructions for a slightly different version with a menu layout that is also slightly different and work it out from there.

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MS Office has the same search behaviour, and the ribbon layout has not changed since it was first implemented in Office 2007.

MS Office search doesn't show me where in the menu the item I searched for is located - if I rely on the search, I haven't learned where the thing is in the menu.

> For MS products I end up Googling how to do something and invariably get instructions for a slightly different version with a menu layout that is also slightly different and work it out from there.

Sounds like something ChatGPT could help with

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