Office 2007 [modified]
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I used to work in an office full of mad feminists. I used to say 'women, we gave them the vote and look at the world now'. Worked a charm.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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I bought a new machine, which had the full, registered, version of Office 2007 pro installed. I got so sick of it, even though I tried to get used to it for over a month, that I uninstalled it. I now have an illegal version of Office 2003 on that machine. Just let 'em try to sue me! I'll rip 'em to shreds!
Mark Wallace wrote:
illegal version of Office 2003
Thats not cool.
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Mark Wallace wrote:
illegal version of Office 2003
Thats not cool.
Bassam Saoud wrote:
Mark Wallace wrote: illegal version of Office 2003 Thats not cool.
It certainly isn't, given that the license for Office 2007, which I paid for but will never use, is more expensive! The most annoying thing about this is that I spend an inordinate amount of time explaining to Java (Swing, Lord 'elp us!) programmers that they have to create GUIs that are built so that people will immediately know how to use them, because they follow patterns that people are familiar with (i.e. MS Office, pre 2007), and then Office 2007 breaks every bluddy rule that I'm trying to put across! If anyone but MS had released products with the dire Office 2007 interface, it would have been completely ignored. Because it's MS, a lot of people are stuck with it. Just watch how many people start using OpenOffice, just because it's got an interface they're familiar with.
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
Haven't tried it yet (they're talking about moving to it at work, but no clear timeline), although i do use another app that apes the ribbon bar thing. Used the app for about a week before it dawned on me: i never use the menu bar or toolbars in programs which provide decent context menus. It's been over half a year now, and i still don't think i've ever touched the bar in that program. Sadly, Office context menus suck. Any chance they improved significantly in 2007?
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I hate the ribbon bar.
There's a product out there (sorry, I can't remember the link, nor even where I saved the link) that's either free or cheap, that gives you all your familiar Office 2000 menus for Office 2007. :) Marc
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You're a fast runner? ;P
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Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I hate that people send me docx files now, I have to unzip them and read the plain text.
Have you tried the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack[^]? Regards, --Perspx
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thanks - I may try that.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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I *despise* it. Do NOt use outlook 2007, it lost ALL my mail, out of the blue, and all I used it for was a simple mail client. I hate that people send me docx files now, I have to unzip them and read the plain text. I refuse to run that rubbish on my PC.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
Christian Graus wrote:
Do NOt use outlook 2007, it lost ALL my mail, out of the blue
Because nothing else can read outlook 2007 e-mail files, I had to re-install outlook 2007, create a new e-mail account, and forward to it all the e-mails that outlook 2007 had screwed up. This means that every e-mail I had migrated to outlook 2007 now appears to have been sent by me.
Christian Graus wrote:
I hate that people send me docx files now, I have to unzip them and read the plain text.
When people send me docx files for critique, I reply to them (I have even gone to the length of making a template for this!) that they should save as Word 6 files and re-send. (Yes, I know I'm evil, but it makes me happy!)
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Bassam Saoud wrote:
Mark Wallace wrote: illegal version of Office 2003 Thats not cool.
It certainly isn't, given that the license for Office 2007, which I paid for but will never use, is more expensive! The most annoying thing about this is that I spend an inordinate amount of time explaining to Java (Swing, Lord 'elp us!) programmers that they have to create GUIs that are built so that people will immediately know how to use them, because they follow patterns that people are familiar with (i.e. MS Office, pre 2007), and then Office 2007 breaks every bluddy rule that I'm trying to put across! If anyone but MS had released products with the dire Office 2007 interface, it would have been completely ignored. Because it's MS, a lot of people are stuck with it. Just watch how many people start using OpenOffice, just because it's got an interface they're familiar with.
In my opinion, Office 2007 interface is much more accesible than any other office suite applications. But anyways cant you change theme back to classic or something?
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
I actually like Office 2007. I hated the menus in the previous versions, because the menu hierarchy was so friggin deep, it would take an entire morning just to find what I wanted.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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In my opinion, Office 2007 interface is much more accesible than any other office suite applications. But anyways cant you change theme back to classic or something?
Bassam Saoud wrote:
In my opinion, Office 2007 interface is much more accesible than any other office suite applications.
Yes, and there are people who think that Eclipse is more accessible than VS.
Bassam Saoud wrote:
But anyways cant you change theme back to classic or something?
No, you can't. You're stuck with that damned screen-consuming ribbon, that is not user-configurable, and that contains only what the "geniuses" who invented it think it should contain. I take it you're relatively new to office applications, and that years of experience of using a particular way of doing things (and of using particular toolbar configurations!) aren't relevant to you. Had I wanted to have to re-learn how to create and modify documents, I could have picked up the stupidest of open-source office apps, and learned their way of doing things.
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Bassam Saoud wrote:
In my opinion, Office 2007 interface is much more accesible than any other office suite applications.
Yes, and there are people who think that Eclipse is more accessible than VS.
Bassam Saoud wrote:
But anyways cant you change theme back to classic or something?
No, you can't. You're stuck with that damned screen-consuming ribbon, that is not user-configurable, and that contains only what the "geniuses" who invented it think it should contain. I take it you're relatively new to office applications, and that years of experience of using a particular way of doing things (and of using particular toolbar configurations!) aren't relevant to you. Had I wanted to have to re-learn how to create and modify documents, I could have picked up the stupidest of open-source office apps, and learned their way of doing things.
Okay you convinced me, just take it easy okay !
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In my opinion, Office 2007 interface is much more accesible than any other office suite applications. But anyways cant you change theme back to classic or something?
There is a 3rd party patch to do so. It's been linked to on CP before. Alternately I'm sure you could find it via google.
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Okay you convinced me, just take it easy okay !
Bassam Saoud wrote:
Okay you convinced me, just take it easy okay !
Grrrrrrrr! Rarrrrrrr! Snarfle!!! Anyone for tennis? Let's play it with mop-buckets instead of racquets, and set the net at 1400 feet, with a dip on the left-hand side of 930 feet (and paint flowers and butterflies on the bit in the middle). I'm sure everyone will love it that way. Harrier pilots will have a chance of winning Wimbledon. I never thought I would see the day that MS would become as user-unfriendly as adobe. COME BACK, BILL!!! ALL IS FORGOTTEN!!!
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
I'm the opposite. I actually love it. I hated personalized menus and always used to find the menus unfriendly. Now I see everything.
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Bassam Saoud wrote:
Okay you convinced me, just take it easy okay !
Grrrrrrrr! Rarrrrrrr! Snarfle!!! Anyone for tennis? Let's play it with mop-buckets instead of racquets, and set the net at 1400 feet, with a dip on the left-hand side of 930 feet (and paint flowers and butterflies on the bit in the middle). I'm sure everyone will love it that way. Harrier pilots will have a chance of winning Wimbledon. I never thought I would see the day that MS would become as user-unfriendly as adobe. COME BACK, BILL!!! ALL IS FORGOTTEN!!!
Mark Wallace wrote:
COME BACK, BILL!!! ALL IS FORGOTTEN!!!
:laugh: :laugh:
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I hate it.
Office 2007 takes too long to load. I tried it but very fast switched back to office 2002. jhaga
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I hate the ribbon bar.
There's a product out there (sorry, I can't remember the link, nor even where I saved the link) that's either free or cheap, that gives you all your familiar Office 2000 menus for Office 2007. :) Marc
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I hate the ribbon bar. I hate the schmaltzy semi-background ([EDIT] that mysteriously disappears in the silver theme). I hate the gay light blue theme. I hate it. [EDIT] I found out how to change the gay blue theme to the less gay (but gay nonetheless) black theme. [EDIT] They just revirginized my system here at work, and they gave me Orifice 2007. I hate it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001modified on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM
I hated the ribbon bar from day one. Still, I though my wife and kids might like it so I talked it up. My youngest daughter (13)--who does a lot of writing--was very excited. A day later, she meekly asked if I could put the "old" word back on. Most surprising is that she made several very specific and valid criticisms. My wife added several of her own. (The common criticism from all of us is why do you use up all that room for stuff I'll never use?) Funny thing is I left Excel 2007 on one system since I figured it was so rarely used, the ribbon might be helpful. One day my wife tried using it and called me up in frustration for help. I forgot it was 2007 and started walking her through the steps as if it were 2003. There was a long silence and she asked what I was talking about. (That was almost as bad as when my oldest daughter called and forgot to say she was using Works and was even more confused.) That aside, what utterly baffles me about Office 2007 is why they didn't have a simple button to re-skin the applications to look like Office 2003. You can get very close with enough patience, but not quite there. IE7 is the same way. Oh and then there's the lack of a "Save My Settings" wizard. So once I got Word on one computer more or less looking like Word 2003, I couldn't share that with the other computer. (And when that computer went south--bug between nForce4 and SATA--I would have been SOL. Fortunately, I was using Word 2003 and save and back up my settings and was back in business in a flash. "Save my settings" should be a feature on all software.)
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