Personalized Menus - Use them?

Personalized Menus - Use them?

While we are on the subject of user interfaces, what about Personalized Menus?  They are an optional method in Office 2003, accessed through the Customize dialog.  They don’t exist in Office 2007; but since there has been general agreement (at least from most of the people I discuss it with) that the Office 2003 Menus, I thought I would bring them up to see if they are preferred or not.

If you uncheck “Always show full menus” then you will get the Personalized Menus that look like this:

The double arrow at the bottom is a cascade menu (double arrow) that shows you the menu items that you have used infrequently.  The intent is to only display those menu items that you use regularly.  Apparently the algorithm to determine which items should be hidden in the cascade; but it reportedly does a good job.

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What do you think?

Do you use Personalized Menus?

Considering that some Menus may be quite long in Expedition PCB, is this a reasonable method to shorten the menus?

Or, do you use toolbars mostly and don’t visit the Menus very often?

Would you be interested in a Favorites Menu in which you could put your favorite menu items?

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