Re: Word 2007 not working like Word 2003

I agree that this is definately a "skip one cycle" release. I think that's
true of Office 2007, IE7, and even Vista. This is the first time in my
career as a Windows developer that I've said this sort of thing with any
vehemence (heck, I even liked WinME).

I've been using Office 2007 for over a month... and while I love the
improvements in Outlook 2007(actually they're bug fixes)... the rest of the
suite is just a big PIA on many many many levels.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com
"Bill" <Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We are having enormous problems with Word 2007. We are running XP Pro with
all updates and service packs. Office 2007 was installed last Friday
(15/12/06). Apart from all the other issues about 'ribbons' (which we
believe
Microsoft has made a terrible design blunder with this), we are having a
nightmare producing our normal daily reports in Word. In Word 2003 we
created
a landscape orientated document each morning with 2 pages, and chose
different odd and even for our headers ((This is now far too long winded
in
Word 2007 and we continue to not be able to find the commands we are
looking
for)). Once we have done this we insert a Wordart header into the new
blank
header template and format it (this is also now very clumsy compared to
what
it used to be). This is then followed by inserting an object from a file
e.g.
an Excel spread*** with a block of data and a chart on the work***
page.
In the past this has come across as a single object and then we resized it
as
required to fit onto the Word page. This, apparently no longer works
whether
you are doing it as word/excel (doc/xls) or word/excel (docx/xlsx files).
The
only way to do this is a very long winded copy each object, paste special
and
choose either the Excel workbook or the Excel graphic. How can this be
considered an increase in productivity? We believe Office 2007 will be
rejected by most people. Some of the new features are okay (except the
ribbon), the frustrations, learning curve (and cost behind that) are far
too
excessive to justify the change. It is a well known fact in our industry
that
every other version of Office is the way to go. Office 2000 was superb, we
skipped XP and moved to 2003 which has been a real workhorse - short on
lots
of functionality but very stable and usable. Looks like Office 2007 has
fallen into the 'skip one cycle'. The comments that we have been reading
about Office 2007 from the pros all seem to suggest that it has been
redesigned to suit the non-power user - make it easier for those who only
use
it sparingly - why is that - surely Microsoft need to cater for the people
who are demanding and power users as they use the product the most.

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