Re: Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 WHY???

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:08:26 -0800, RIckP <RIckP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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!

Your grasp of quotations is somewhat lacking. The full quote is "one man's
meat is another man's poison". It was obviously meant to convey that not
everyone has the same likes and dislikes. You should not be so quick to
take offense where none was obviously intended.

Grow up!



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

One man's meat... etc.

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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!!!
|
|
| "RIckP" wrote:
|
|| 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:
||
||| 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:
||||
||||| 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
||||| news:u%23eMODtYHHA.992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||| Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Progress always means
||||| that someone
||||| is upset.
|||||
||||| --Â?
||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||||
||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
||||| without reading.
|||||
||||| After furious head scratching, RIckP asked:
|||||
|||||| 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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