Bloody ribbon. Open options with mouse held down as old menus.

[coll12345]

I find clicking around looking for things in the ribbon very slow and tiring
on the eyes. If tabs, buttons and menus changed with the mouse button held
down, this may be a little easier.

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[Beth Melton]

I find clicking around looking for things in the ribbon very slow and
tiring
on the eyes. If tabs, buttons and menus changed with the mouse button held
down, this may be a little easier.

If you have a wheel mouse you can roll the wheel when the mouse is
positioned over the Ribbon and the tabs will change. Additionally, the
Office 2007 Guides (link at the bottom of my signature) may help you find
commands as well. You'll find an Interactive Guide for the applications you
can use to navigate to a command in the old UI and animate its new location
in the new UI.
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[coll12345]

I use a scrolling mouse, but it is still a question of using a number of
steps to reach things that were previously opened in one smooth movement. And
with each additional step, you have to refocus, reaim and click again. Do
that a few hundred times a day and you really feel the difference on your
eyes. If you could click on a tab then move over the icons to open menus,
then the process would be streamlined at least. Your eyes still have to dart
around locating things mind you, whereas before you just looked down a list.

This is just one of the many changes in Vista/Office that make things
painfully slow for someone who has to use the applications a lot. Everything
seems to have an extra step now. Very frustrating.

 

[Beth Melton]

I use a scrolling mouse, but it is still a question of using a number of
steps to reach things that were previously opened in one smooth movement.
And
with each additional step, you have to refocus, reaim and click again. Do
that a few hundred times a day and you really feel the difference on your
eyes. If you could click on a tab then move over the icons to open menus,
then the process would be streamlined at least. Your eyes still have to
dart
around locating things mind you, whereas before you just looked down a
list.

This is just one of the many changes in Vista/Office that make things
painfully slow for someone who has to use the applications a lot.
Everything
seems to have an extra step now. Very frustrating.

I know the frustration you're experiencing all too well! I recall my "mouse
hand" hurting after I started using Office 2007. But once I started using
the wheel to scroll the tabs it's like second nature now. I also know what
it was like to search for the buttons. But, like scrolling the tabs, I tend
to click the buttons now without really thinking about it so it does get
easier once you get used to it. I still miss my floating toolbars, though,
and I have yet to used to not having them. :-(

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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
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[On Request]

Goodness, I did not know about using the mouse wheel to scroll within the
ribbon...glad I browsed to this post!

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm glad you found it helpful.

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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
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[johnc]

I'm glad you found it helpful.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
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