Re: Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 WHY???

You start out in your thread being condescending to me and because my opinion
differed from yours, I was immediately wrong!. Then you come back and insult
me, and finally you are audacious enough to tell me to "lighten up". Do me a
favor, don't reply to any more of my comments, as I don't want to discuss
this with you any further.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Huh??!! It is a simple comment saying that what one man likes the other may despise. If you took it as an insult, you are reading way too much into a simple comment. Lighten up!!

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After furious head scratching, RIckP asked:

| And what exactly do you mean by that? You have no right to be
| insulting just because someone differs with YOUR opinion. You should
| be ashamed of yourself!
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| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|| One man's meat... etc.
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|| After furious head scratching, RIckP asked:
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||| 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.
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|||| "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.
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||||| 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!
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|||||| "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
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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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