Re: How useful are Word 5.1a menus in Office 2004?
- From: Clive Huggan <REMOVETHISoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:07:55 +1100
Hello Zack,
Ah, Word 5.1a <nostalgic sigh> ...
I resisted "up"grading -- till Word 2001, when I simply had to because of
commercial pressures (I operate cross-platform).
I found the changes between 5.1a and 2001 so profound that I started to
write notes on the differences and on features that were new to me, when I
moved to Word 2001. So they were written from a viewpoint similar to yours.
Four years later, having now moved to Word 2004 it is much better than
Word X, which was rushed out to coincide with OS X's release, and we all
know how much OS X has changed since then -- and having skipped Word X,
I'm still continually improving them. Despite growing in size (the page
extent is now about 170 pages) and covering significant changes in Word
2004, the underlying starting point is still migration from 5.1. So things
like the changes from glossary to AutoText and AutoCorrect, workarounds for
features that disappeared, and initial settings in Preferences to stop Word
doing more than you might want it to, are all covered -- albeit the
5.1-specific material is now in the minority.
The notes are titled "Bend Word to Your Will", and are available as a free
download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm).
[Note: The document is designed to be used electronically and most subjects
are self-contained dictionary-style entries. Be sure to read the front end
so you can use the document to best advantage and select the right settings
for reading it.]
If you download a copy, after reading the front end, see what you get when
you do a "Find" command for "5.1".
A new version will be available in 2-3 weeks, containing my latest
incursions into Word 2004.
I have yet to meet one person who denigrates Word 5.1 <nostalgic sigh>. But
the world moves on (not necessarily upwards).
I agree with Matt's comment about using Word 5.1 menus in Word 2004, BTW.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
On 16/11/05 2:24 PM, in article
1132111483.612713.54950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Zack"
<asdfi23453@xxxxxxxxx> 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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