"Required to use MS products at work"
That sums up the problem - I HAVE to use Office at work. Fortunately, our IT
department is holding off on upgrading to Office 2007 (as well as Vista and
especially any post-2003 server products).
There are probably millions of people working at jobs where Office is
installed and required to be used by their employer. I use WordPerfect at
home, a 10-yr-old version which is still better than any version of Word I've
ever had to use - nothing beats the convenience of revealing codes and
dragging that pesky font or formatting change button out of your document to
fix it.
Most people do pretty basic stuff with Word or Excel and the 97 version will
handle anything they require. That doesn't do much for Microsoft's sales, and
they've found that tossing in new features doesn't help sales very much, so
they are trying a new interface to boost their profit margins.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the average office worker doesn't want to waste
their time learning a new interface to do the same old documents they've been
doing for years, nor do their managers want to waste time and money on
training for new interfaces. Microsoft would have fared better if they had
tossed in an emoticon menu for e-mail editing and a dozen "wacky new fonts"
for next-gen users.
The bottom line is: "I didn't purchase it, my unsuspecting employer did!"
Kevin
note - I work in an IT department and our boss did buy a few copies for IT
to test and play with. The final verdict, not going to deploy it until
service pack 3, IFF Microsoft sees the light and adds an option for classic
menus. If we have to learn something new to stay current, might as well make
it Open Office and save the company some cash.
Milly Staples said:
And I wonder why people purchase Office 2007 after reading all about the "horrid" ribbon and then come here to complain loudly, rather than use the version that works for them? I should know better by now, I guess.
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After furious head scratching, Jeff R asked:
| I know I'm on here a year after you posted, but I HATE Word 2007. I
| hate that the ribbons aren't customizable or that I have to do
| serious work-arounds or buy some sort of 3rd party product to change
| them. If I want decent-sized screen buttons (such as n the ribbons),
| then my screen is littered with all sorts of commands that I don't
| want, never use, or use exceedingly rarely, while the cammands that I
| use all the time are buried or I have to put them on the Quick bar --
| so that they are not with ribbon commands with which I would normally
| group them. For example, I frequently use Character Scaling, which i
| normally set next to the other text editing commands (like Bold,
| Italics, etc.). But I can't do that because I can't modify the
| useless ribbon. So my option is to make my own tiny Quick menu and
| always minimize the ribbons. Stupid stupid stupid. I like that
| Microsoft in their tutorial for Word 2007 waste my time by pointing
| out that I am free to choose between 3 color schemes for my Word
| windows.
| The bottom line is that I have this new super-charged product, and
| mainly I have to waste time finding work-arounds because it can't do
| what the older version did. I really really hate having to waste time
| because the design team didn't consider the way I use a computer.
| Jeff R -- Winter Haven, FL
|
| "RickB" wrote:
|
|| With all due respect to the new Office 2007 "Ribbon" menues, is
|| there a way to show "classic" toolbars like Office 2003? I just
|| spent 2 hours looking in PowerPoint 2007 for a feature I used
|| several times a day in 2003. I understand the Ribbons to be for the
|| 80% people. Problem is, I'm one of the 20%.
||
|| thanks,
|| RickB
