I don't like the ribbon

G

Gordon

jay said:
Does anyone make a retro menu for 2007?
Click to expand...


Give it a chance - you will come to find that, combined with the Quick
Access Toolbar, its more intuitive than the old menus....
 
O

Open Office fan

Or save time and switch to Open Office and find the old familiar and more
user friendly interface of )ffice 2000. I still remain to be convinced that
the changes introduced on Office 2007 GUI are actually useful.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

See the reply to your other post about Office 2007 - and then try reading http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh

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After furious head scratching, Open Office fan asked:

| Or save time and switch to Open Office and find the old familiar and
| more user friendly interface of )ffice 2000. I still remain to be
| convinced that the changes introduced on Office 2007 GUI are actually
| useful.
|
| "Gordon" wrote:
|
|| ||| Does anyone make a retro menu for 2007?
||
||
|| Give it a chance - you will come to find that, combined with the
|| Quick Access Toolbar, its more intuitive than the old menus....
 
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Another Brian

Gordon said:
Give it a chance - you will come to find that, combined with the
Quick Access Toolbar, its more intuitive than the old menus....
Click to expand...
I've had Office 2007 installed for the last three months. Some new
features are cool such as seeing what a style or font change will do
while just hovering over the ribbon selection. However, there are a
few "improvements" that I really do not like. First let me say that we
in this household are power users. In 2003 we had most of the tool
bars active so to minimize the amount of clicking to get things done.
There isn't enough room in the QAT to put all the functions that we
use all the time. It is a hassle needing to remember on which ribbon
each function is located and having to use the extra clicks to select
the needed ribbon and then click the needed function and then click
back to the Home ribbon or where ever is need next. Another
"improvement" that isn't is the default behavior of tables. When I
insert a table it defaults to be floating. When I put a table in a
document, I want it to be fixed in place.

At this time, I'm very close to uninstalling Office 2007 and going
back to 2003.

IMHO, the ribbon is a good idea, but if Microsoft really wanted to
help the users transition to it, they should have included the old
menus along with the ribbon. Maybe they could have made them work like
the menu does in IE7 where you have to push Alt to see the menu.

I'll throw one last request into this rant. In the past I've seen
references to maps of Office 2003 menus to their associated ribbon
locations. Searching Google and these NG's, I'm coming up blank. I'd
prefer something that can be printed out and kept on hand instead of
the interactive reference mentioned by Milly
(http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/05/30/610907.aspx)

Thanks for letting me blow some steam off.
Brian
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

For the keyboard mapping workbooks (2003 to 2007) please see reply to your other message.

The Word tables behavior default is to have no text wrapping (i.e. it's inline with text) , unless you drag it.

If you use the prior version Alt key menus and many of the Ctrl+ keyboard shortcuts they're still active in the 2007 version. A
number of the right click context menus are also helpful and when you select an item in the document often the ribbon will jump to
the contextual ribbon tab as well.

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I've had Office 2007 installed for the last three months. Some new
features are cool such as seeing what a style or font change will do
while just hovering over the ribbon selection. However, there are a
few "improvements" that I really do not like. First let me say that we
in this household are power users. In 2003 we had most of the tool
bars active so to minimize the amount of clicking to get things done.
There isn't enough room in the QAT to put all the functions that we
use all the time. It is a hassle needing to remember on which ribbon
each function is located and having to use the extra clicks to select
the needed ribbon and then click the needed function and then click
back to the Home ribbon or where ever is need next. Another
"improvement" that isn't is the default behavior of tables. When I
insert a table it defaults to be floating. When I put a table in a
document, I want it to be fixed in place.

At this time, I'm very close to uninstalling Office 2007 and going
back to 2003.

IMHO, the ribbon is a good idea, but if Microsoft really wanted to
help the users transition to it, they should have included the old
menus along with the ribbon. Maybe they could have made them work like
the menu does in IE7 where you have to push Alt to see the menu.

I'll throw one last request into this rant. In the past I've seen
references to maps of Office 2003 menus to their associated ribbon
locations. Searching Google and these NG's, I'm coming up blank. I'd
prefer something that can be printed out and kept on hand instead of
the interactive reference mentioned by Milly
(http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/05/30/610907.aspx)

Thanks for letting me blow some steam off.
Brian >>
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