Re: Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 WHY???

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, RIckP asked:

| You helped me make up my mind. I am de-installing the Ultimate Office
| disaster and I am deinstalling marvelous Vista and I am asking for my
| money back. As far as I am concerned, they are not ready for prime
| time and I hate them both. And don't ever try to tell me they have
| intuitive interfaces....because they DON'T!!!
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| "RIckP" wrote:
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|| I think you have missed my point! Why should I have to hit F1 and
|| look up the command for every bloody command out there. I have been
|| working with Microsoft Office from back in the days of Windows 3.1
|| Microsoft missed the boat by not providing a transition. They even
|| had transistions for WordPerfect users at one point in time. Let's
|| face it, there is not lots of NEW features, it just appears that way
|| because EVERYTHING is rearranged. Quite frankly, If I had an
|| alternative, I would replace the entire suite as it is really
|| beginning to grate on me.
||
|| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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||| I read your post and was curious just how difficult it was to find
||| that information. I opened Excel 2007 for the *first time*, hit F1,
||| and typed "*** protection" in the search field. The very first
||| hit told me who to find that command.
|||
||| I don't mean to sound nasty but if you were digging around for two
||| hours looking for a command and you never tried the built-in Help
||| files, shame on you. If you were anxious to use the new version of
||| office, there's been a trial version online for a couple of months
||| now. You could have had that two-week learning curve done before
||| Zasu Pitts's birthday. (Let's see how quick you are about looking
||| things up now.)
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||| JoAnn Paules
||| Microsoft MVP - Publisher
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||| "RIckP" <RIckP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||| news:D763C32B-54B3-4C83-B663-608E16223FD4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||| Believe me, I am not against change either. But there needed to
|||| be a transition from old to new. The certainly could have
|||| provided an addin that
|||| provided the familiar pull down menus complete with any new
|||| features that might be available. Instead, they put everything in
|||| a blender and then tell
|||| you that it is better for you this way. I spent 2 hours trying to
|||| figure how
|||| to turn off *** protection in Excel. I can't afford to go
|||| through a 2 week
|||| learning curve on my system where I am no longer productive during
|||| that time.
|||| I can't run both 2007 and 2003 on the same machine easily! One to
|||| do my work, and the other to play with and learn.
||||
|||| Vista is even worse!
||||
|||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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||||| I b*tched about the change as well. It's not that I am against
||||| change but I
||||| just didn't like the ribbon.
|||||
||||| Well, it's been about a week since I got my new comouter with
||||| Vista and Office 2007. Slowly but surely I'm getting used to it.
||||| I haven't done a whole lot that involves the new interface but
||||| *so far* everything I've needed has been very easy to find.
|||||
||||| I've spent most of my computer time this week trying to get
||||| things set up the way I want it and get my programs installed. I
||||| intend to spend more time
||||| with the ribbon next week. Funny thing is that at work I find
||||| myself trying
||||| to do something the "new way" on my work computer that is running
||||| Win XP and
||||| Office 2003. And IE6 - UGH!!
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||||| JoAnn Paules
||||| Microsoft MVP - Publisher
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||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||||| <MillyS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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||||| Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Progress always means
||||| that someone
||||| is upset.
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||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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||||| After furious head scratching, RIckP asked:
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|||||| I just want to know WHY? Why did Microsoft decide to change the
|||||| familiar pull down menus to the new graphical ribbons without
|||||| allowing for the option to use the pull down menus if you decide
|||||| that was better for you. They have basically taken all the
|||||| commands and relocated them. I have been wasting hours and
|||||| hours trying to find where commands have gone and I am about to
|||||| delete 2007 and go back to 2003. I don't want to have a "cheat
|||||| ***" cross reference that I have to keep looking at, and I
|||||| don't want to re-learn Microsoft Office. Please just put an
|||||| option for the old command pull down menus. I am so
|||||| disappointed in both Office 2007 and in Vista!
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