Worst Upgrade Ever!

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Tom Wulf

I recall how cool Office 2003 was. I could figure out how to do 90% of what
I needed to do by right clicking to get the context menu. I didn't have to
be trained or take any courses to do this.

Why would I want to spend a lot of time relearning what I already know how
to do with the old version? I don't see any new features that excite me.

Everytime I try to find a file, the damn thing stops to (re) compile the
root folder list. It doesn't even remember it during a session. Oddly enough
my OS knows what files I have and it is actually easier and quicker to open
multiple files from the OS rather than from within the applciations.

The worst thing of all was when Outlook started to do this. I can't avoid
that I have to save the attachments that I got.
 
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Gordon

Tom Wulf said:
I recall how cool Office 2003 was. I could figure out how to do 90% of
what
I needed to do by right clicking to get the context menu. I didn't have
to
be trained or take any courses to do this.

Why would I want to spend a lot of time relearning what I already know how
to do with the old version? I don't see any new features that excite me.

Everytime I try to find a file, the damn thing stops to (re) compile the
root folder list. It doesn't even remember it during a session. Oddly
enough
my OS knows what files I have and it is actually easier and quicker to
open
multiple files from the OS rather than from within the applciations.

The worst thing of all was when Outlook started to do this. I can't avoid
that I have to save the attachments that I got.
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And your question is?
 
B

Bob I

Harlan said:
Newsgroups are not exclusively for asking and answering questions, so
your point is?
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The point is, what was the OP referring to/whining about? Seems to be a
rant about some upgrade thing or something.
 
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Harlan Grove

Bob I said:
The point is, what was the OP referring to/whining about? Seems to
be a rant about some upgrade thing or something.
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Since the OP started off with, "I recall how cool Office 2003 was."
how big a mental leap is required to figure out the OP might be
referring to Office 2007? OK, it may be a bigger leap for some than
for others.
 
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Harlan Grove

Tom Willett said:
Change sucks, doesn't it?
Wasn't Office 95 much easier for you?
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Very, very apt comparison, at least for Excel, though no doubt you didn't
intend for it to be so. Microsoft changed Excel's menus in Excel 5
(basically the same as 95) compared to Excel 4, but at that time Microsoft
still faced some real competition from Lotus and Borland, so it included an
option to use Excel 4 menus.

Not all change sucks. Office 97 was a big improvement over Office 95. Office
2000 was an improvement over Office 97 (mostly for Office developers since
Office 2000 upgraded VBA to VBA 6). Office XP was less of an improvement
over Office 2000 (though Excel 2002 finally got fixed stats functions that
provided numerical accuracy comparable to what Lotus 123 had provided since
1989, 11 years earlier; and COLORED WORKSHEET TABS! that Quattro Pro had
introduced in 1993, 8 years earlier). Office 2003 was minimal change from
Office XP, but at least it didn't bring with it an entirely new UI.

The changes that does suck is that, unlike the early 1990s, Microsoft now
has sufficient market share that they believe they no longer have to provide
backwards compatible optional UIs for long-time users. And also sucking is
the much larger cadre of sycophants like you that cheer whatever they do and
chide anyone else who doesn't like it.
 
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