Select All, Copy & Paste shoud be together rather separated

[Fishnet77]

In Office 2003 we could use the mouse click button to Select All, Copy &
Paste, common functions often done in sequence. In Office 2007 Word, the
Select All function has disappeared from the left click. If that wasn't
enough of an increasing user inconvenience. the "Select All" is at the
extreme right of the tool bar, while the Copy & Paste are on the extreme left.

Wasn't a user test conducted to analyze the common combined sequential
functions.

Of course, the disappearance of the familiar File and Edit Open functions
have disappeared which has helped drive my wife to Mac and Pages.

Does that get your attention to these valuable details of user convenience
and productivity?

Now, I like the new Office format in many instances where it has increased
user convenience and productivity, but the learning curve is still uphill
utilizing help and then Google when it is not in the Help, like how to make
suggestions to MS on a particular software product. Pretty basic. Keep
working on it and thanks for listening and considering.

Bill

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I expect Bill is referring to the Select tool in Word 2007 (whose submenu
includes Select All). It's at the far right of the Home tab of the Ribbon,
and Clipboard is on the far left. But Ctrl+A (or Ctrl+click in the left
margin) is easier still.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Suzanne;

I understood the point he made about 2007 - in fact, I think it's a rather
illogical place for the Select All command as well But my point was in
regard to the opening statement about *2003*:

That's what is unclear, so I have no idea what he's comparing 2007 to.

BTW: How's the "Granny" role going?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Fishnet77]

I expect Bill is referring to the Select tool in Word 2007 (whose submenu
includes Select All). It's at the far right of the Home tab of the Ribbon,
and Clipboard is on the far left. But Ctrl+A (or Ctrl+click in the left
margin) is easier still.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org


Thanks all of you for your responses. Yes, I do the keyboard shortcuts of CTRL+C & CTRL+P most of the time. You all are very responsive and this is the first time I finally used this feature, although I had to search on Google to find a way to ask a question or make a suggestion. Ideally, it would appear in each of the Office functions Help, but alas, I could not find it there.

Best regards to all of you, Bill

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, I take your point.

Haven't had a grannygram lately, but at last report all are doing well.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Greg Maxey]

In Office 2003 we could use the mouse click button to Select All, Copy  &
Paste, common functions often done in sequence. In Office 2007 Word, the
Select All function has  disappeared from the left click. If that wasn't
enough of an increasing user inconvenience. the "Select All" is at the
extreme right of the tool bar, while the Copy & Paste are on the extreme left.

Wasn't a user test conducted to analyze the common combined sequential
functions.

Of course, the disappearance of the familiar File and Edit Open functions
have disappeared which has helped drive my wife to Mac and Pages.

Does that get your attention to these valuable details of user convenience
and productivity?

Now, I like the new Office format in many instances where it has increased
user convenience and productivity, but the learning curve is still uphill
utilizing help and then Google when it is not in the Help, like how to make
suggestions to MS on a particular software product. Pretty basic. Keep
working on it and thanks for listening and considering.

Bill

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=2507....

You can customize the ribbon to group the commands together. My tips
page on ribbon customization uses this as one of the examples:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm