Re: How useful are Word 5.1a menus in Office 2004?
- From: Jim Gordon MVP <goldkey74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:08:03 -0500
Hi
Why not install the free test drive of Office 2004 and give it a whirl. It doesn't cost anything to try it for 30 days:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td
Once you have installed Office, go to Word's TOOLS menu and choose CUSTOMIZE. Click on the TOOLBARS tab (it will probably be the default tab) and click the checkbox next to WORD FOR MACINTOSH 5.1 then uncheck any toolbars you don't want. Then click OK.
Next go to the WORD menu and choose PREFERENCES. In the COMPATABILITY section set the RECOMMENDED OPTIONS FOR drop down to WORD FOR THE MACINTOSH 5x then click OK.
Word 2004 lets you set just about everything to keyboard shortcuts, so if there is a command you want a specific keyboard shortcut to activate you can probably do it. Help explains about keyboard shortcuts.
Doing these things will make Word 2004 look and behave a lot like Word 5.1. Not exactly, but very close - probably close enough to make the adjustment to 2004 with only a slight amount of pain.
-Jim
-- Jim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs>
Zack wrote:
Printing issues seem to be forcing me to upgrade from my beloved Word 5.1a to the current version of Microsoft Office. I tried this once before, "upgrading" a few years ago to Office X. What a disaster; after a week I sent Office back to Microsoft and ran screaming back to 5.1a in frustrated disgust.
Will I do any better now with Word 2004? I'm intrigued by the option of selecting menus that match 5.1a. What drove me nuts last time was having to spend literally hours digging around in the totally unintuitive interface (with little help from the unintuitive documentation) trying to figure out how to do little things (like printing an envelope) that took a single obvious keystroke in 5.1a.
Will the '5.x menu' option really let me work with Word 2004 as though it were 5.1a?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Zack
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