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Fritz 15 Help
This means the end of the days in which users had to click through levels of menus
and submenus to find functions. Instead of this simple icons are displayed for the
program functions depending on the context the program is currently in. In the
window’s header words are listed – just as in traditional menus – which represent
groups of commands, such as St a rt , Inse rt or Boa rd .
However, clicking on a word doesn’t open a menu, it opens a list of icons that
represent the relevant commands. Each „menu“ has its own list of icons.
The ribbon takes up more room on the screen than the classical combination of menus
and icons. The symbols are grouped within the ribbon depending on the monitor’s
resolution and the size of the window. Since additional commands can be added to the
ribbons it is rarely necessary to use dialog boxes. There is also the possibility to
minimize the ribbons. This is done by right clicking on the ribbon and clicking on
„Minimize the ribbon“.
This leaves the command words on the screen, but removes the icon list until they are
clicked.
A very important function in this user concept is the Fi