What was MS thinking?

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Lunge Forward

With Office 2007, what was MS thinking? Surely not, this is better. I wonder
how much time in production will be lost when the 'general public' start
wondering where the 'undo' button is? Or the 'new' button? It's what you get
'use to' but this is a complete relearn. Not just a few items to relearn.
 
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Lunge Forward

Undo is on the Quick Access toolbar
New is a click away under the Office Button
Click to expand...

Yes, I found them. But it wasn't intuitive to me at all. I was wanting
'quick' and then thought, "Man, I want to learn something new, not spend my
time relearning what I 'already thought I knew.' If you're going to have to
relearn a program that you previously already knew, it might be a good time
to switch to some free office programs and learn them. My first impression
is 'not good at all.'
 
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Paul Ballou

How much quicker do you want to find it...Undo uses a symbol that is common
in most programs and it sits in plain sight.

Intuitive is different to users as well as developers of software....

It is also different among users what you find not to intuitive to you might
be to other users.

I have felt like you do with other programs where the interface or features
were moved and after using the program usually have found the change not be
so bad.

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Paul Ballou
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C. Moya

I don't think the new ribbon UI will be hard to get used to... and in fact
folks will find it productive in the long-run. Just give it a chance.

My only gripe is the "default file format" WILL CAUSE MANY problems. I'm a
power user... and I've already sent Excel 2007 format files to clients by
mistake only to have them reply compaining "we can't read this file!"

My only other gripe is that despite the "new UI," Office 2007 is not nearly
as revolutionary as MS marketing would have you believe. The same old
brainnumbing deficiencies and quirks and unintuitive dialog boxes are all
still there. :(
 
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Henry Gasko

The Quick Access Toolbar seems to be the way to go to get some customization
into Office 2007. I would simply like to be able to get multiple lines in the
Quick Access Toolbar, so that I can add all the most used commands and some
macros to it (I used 3 lines in Word 2003 and 4 in Excel 2003). However this
seems to be impossible - surely I'm not the only user who uses more than a
dozen commands regularly.

It would also be nice to be able to make some of the icons smaller (e.g. the
Paste icon in the Home menu, or the Calendar screen in Outlook). The only
reason for making them so big seems to be that Microsoft are catering for a
Baby Boomers with failing eyesight (of which I am one, but I have a good pair
of glasses for computer work).

I know RibbonX is available to customize the Ribbon, but what I really want
to do is get rid of the Ribbon and not customize it.

Henry
 
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