Publisher should feature the new interface Word has!

[IE7_FTW11]

Publisher is probably the most used program out of the office group i use.

I have found publisher 2007 to be sort of disapointing so far. I was hoping
to see the lovely ribbion interface in publisher! As well as couple of new
features (eg. some new web tools for webpages?).



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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Please remember that first and foremost, Publisher is a desktop publishing
program. It was not developed to create websites. That's just an added
perk/annoyance (depending on your point of view).

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have found publisher 2007 to be sort of disapointing so far. I was
hoping to see the lovely ribbion interface in publisher!

Personally given a choice between getting the Ribbon and actually getting
some good new functionality, I'd choose the functionality. And that's
basically what the trade-off was.

Saying that, I would have liked to have seen the Ribbon, too.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I must be old school - I can do without the ribbon. Give me plain and simple
any day.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I must be old school - I can do without the ribbon. Give me plain and
simple any day.

Go back to Publisher 2?

The ribbon helps to make things plain and simple, rather than massive seas
of menus and toolbars. Or at least it's designed to.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I still haven't downloaded the beta. I need to plug more RAM in another
system that I have that is collecting dust. It was a freebie and to date
I've spent nothing on it. I'm hoping to continue that trend. (I have a
friend who says he may have some old PC133 RAM tossed in a drawer
somewhere.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Ed Bennett]

I still haven't downloaded the beta. I need to plug more RAM in
another system that I have that is collecting dust. It was a freebie
and to date I've spent nothing on it. I'm hoping to continue that
trend. (I have a friend who says he may have some old PC133 RAM
tossed in a drawer somewhere.)

I upgraded a friend's machine from 64MB of RAM to 320MB a couple of weeks
ago (PC133, laptop). The speedup was amazing!

(Then I XP'd it the other day - it was a ME machine! Ugh!)

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

The freebie had 512 but one of the sticks was bad. I really want more in it.
It too had ME and THAT I will not allow inside my home. I'd run Win 3.1
before I ran ME. I'm really dumbfounded at home much the PC133 RAM is still
selling for. The least I've seen is $67 for a 512 stick. I'm a bit thrifty
so I'm holding out that my friend comes thru for me. I've acquired a few of
his hand-me-downs. Works fine for me.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Ed Bennett]

The freebie had 512 but one of the sticks was bad. I really want more
in it. It too had ME and THAT I will not allow inside my home. I'd
run Win 3.1 before I ran ME. I'm really dumbfounded at home much the
PC133 RAM is still selling for. The least I've seen is $67 for a 512
stick. I'm a bit thrifty so I'm holding out that my friend comes thru
for me. I've acquired a few of his hand-me-downs. Works fine for me.

From what I've seen, that's pretty average. The supply of PC133 RAM has
dropped off, and there's still a decent demand from old system upgraders. I
was quite surprised how cheaply I was able to pick up a 256MB stick when I
didn't use the Buy It Now options.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I'm a bit leery of going eBay for this. Trying to stay with better known
sources.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]