I hate new 2007 Office! Can I turn on old menus?

J

Jako

Arrrrrrgh!
Anyone know how I can get Word and Excel to have the old menus? I'm so
frustrated hunting for the simplest operations!
 
E

Earle Horton

Google "Office 2007 2003 Menus". There are third party applications that
purport to do what you want. Otherwise get a book or use the Help a lot. I
have had it a little over a year and really it is not so bad...

Earle
 
G

Gordon

Jako said:
Arrrrrrgh!
Anyone know how I can get Word and Excel to have the old menus? I'm so
frustrated hunting for the simplest operations!
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But once you have found these "simple operations" (and as a long-time Office
user I find it relatively easy to find things in the ribbon) you can add
them to the QAT so you don't have to carry on "hunting"...
 
A

Adams

You will be much more familiar with the new ribbon menus. I recommend you to
be little patient then you will like the new one. Try to get find a simple
help form office online. They show how to find old menus in the new ribbons.

Believe me you will like it. The old one much more complicated.

"Jako":
 
B

BrianB

You might or might not get to like the Ribbon. We tried 2007 for over 6
months. We learned where the various button were located. But we are power
users. In 2003 we have all the button bars turned on that we actually use.
We customize them to remove stuff that we never use so as to reduce the
screen space they take up. From there it is "Move cursor to button and
click" to get the function we want. With the ribbon, more often than not the
desired function is on a different ribbon tab, so we had to "Move cursor to
tab, select tab, wait for ribbon to change, move cursor to button, click
again". These extra operations add up. Yes, we could add functions to the
Quick Access Toolbar, but it doesn't have enough room for everything we use
all the time. Yes, we can (and do) use keyboard shortcuts, but they don't
handle everything we need and are too many to memorize all of them.

If they'd just have made the ribbon more customizable and/or allowed the
different ribbon tabs to be broken off to separate floating toolbars, we'd
have been happy.

I know that we've probably lost this battle. M$ knows what its customers
want better than the customers. When 2003 can no longer meet our needs,
we'll probably switch to Open Office or some other office suite. M$ will
have lost our business. That is the consequence of their design choice.

Brian
 
G

Gordon

BrianB said:
You might or might not get to like the Ribbon. We tried 2007 for over 6
months. We learned where the various button were located. But we are power
users. In 2003 we have all the button bars turned on that we actually use.
We customize them to remove stuff that we never use so as to reduce the
screen space they take up. From there it is "Move cursor to button and
click" to get the function we want. With the ribbon, more often than not
the desired function is on a different ribbon tab, so we had to "Move
cursor to tab, select tab, wait for ribbon to change, move cursor to
button, click again". These extra operations add up. Yes, we could add
functions to the Quick Access Toolbar, but it doesn't have enough room for
everything we use all the time. Yes, we can (and do) use keyboard
shortcuts, but they don't handle everything we need and are too many to
memorize all of them.

If they'd just have made the ribbon more customizable and/or allowed the
different ribbon tabs to be broken off to separate floating toolbars, we'd
have been happy.

I know that we've probably lost this battle. M$ knows what its customers
want better than the customers. When 2003 can no longer meet our needs,
we'll probably switch to Open Office or some other office suite. M$ will
have lost our business. That is the consequence of their design choice.
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One of the main reasons for NOT having a customizable ribbon is that, as
prior versions were customisable to the nth degree, corporate support became
an absolute NIGHTMARE. And corporate seats is where the vast majority of
Office installations are..
BTW, I consider myself a "power" user and I NEVER found the need to
customise anything...ever.
 
B

BrianB

Gordon said:
One of the main reasons for NOT having a customizable ribbon is that, as
prior versions were customisable to the nth degree, corporate support
became an absolute NIGHTMARE. And corporate seats is where the vast
majority of Office installations are..
BTW, I consider myself a "power" user and I NEVER found the need to
customise anything...ever.
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That's the difficulty with a one UI fits all solution. Everyone isn't the
same. I do little customization. My wife does significant customization to
make her job easier.

I do understand your support comment. I do support and it is fun helping
with customized setups.

Brian
 
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