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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, rleif asked:
| Unfortunately, you are wrong. I used both Word 2007 and Excel 2007
| for over a week. Microsoft has made the same mistake that WordPerfect
| made. WordPerfect was the leader in word-processing with WordPerfect
| 5. They lost their installed base when they made a Windows product
| with a totally different look and feel.
|
| Although in principle the new GUI may be better, the retraining will
| be too expensive for much of the installed base. This is really a
| shame because the new file technology and use of XML schemas is a
| great improvement. I still keep Word 2007 on my computer, but only
| for special work on production of documents from my XML schemas
|
| In the case of Outlook 2007, there is a technical problem it crashes.
| I would still like to know how to revert back to Outlook 2003.
| Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| No need to "defend" Office 2007. It doesn't need a defense for
|| people who use it for all of 2 seconds and then start to whine.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, RP asked:
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||| Thanks for your help Bob,
|||
||| The one feature in Office2007 that I REALLY wanted was the
||| expandable Excel formula bar - which works great! But I've reverted
||| to Office 2003 for now. I don't want to be stuck with 2007 in
||| February if I choose not to upgrade right away.
|||
||| Any chance you folks could write a patch so we could update
||| Excel2003 for the expandable formula bar???? (That would be so
||| awesome!!)
|||
||| My one strong suggestion about "the ribbon" is: why not keep a
||| classic drop-down menu option AND a ribbon option for viewing
||| menus. I realize you have added many features that would increase
||| the size of drop-down menus. But, for example, my "Favorites" menu
||| in IExplorer is huge, but I don't mind. This would help us
||| 'advanced Office users' ease into using "the ribbon", if it turns
||| out to be that useful.
|||
||| I see you and JoAnn are tasked with defending Office2007. Good luck.
|||
|||
||| RP
|||
||| "Bob Buckland ?
" wrote:
|||
|||| Hi R.P.,
||||
|||| The ribbon doesn't resize vertically.
||||
|||| You can move the Quick Access toolbar (QAT) [the one that has
|||| 'undo' on it, and that you can customize, to be above or below the
|||| ribbon by right clicking on it.
||||
|||| You can use Ctrl+F1, or click on the currently active Ribbon tab
|||| to show/hide the ribbon.
||||
|||| Be sure to send your feedback directly to Microsoft by using the
|||| send-a-smile feedback tool, from the link below. ========
|||| |||| I just installed Office 2007 Beta2. I find the menus in the tool
|||| bar are way
|||| too big. They're driving me nuts. I might uninstall just so I can
|||| revert to
|||| the minimal menu tool bar options of Office2003.
||||
|||| Is there a way to shrink them down?
||||
|||| RP >>
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|||| I hope this helped you,
||||
|||| Bob Buckland ?
|||| MS Office System Products MVP
||||
|||| >>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
||||
|||| Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
|||| the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
||||
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
||||
|||| Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
|||| Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
||||
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/