Re: New Puter At Work Came With 2007 and I Hate It!

Hi Bob! Thanks for the post. Yes, I saw the link to that presentation on
Jensen Harris' blog. However, since I have no interest in the new UI nor too
much free time, I rather doubt I'll spend the time to watch that. These days,
I spend a good bit of my time transitioning my documents (tons of them) to
OpenOffice, rather than meekly accept whatever MS wants users to have.

Recently, I found out that a major financial institution has advised their
employees that they can purchase MS Office 2007 for personal use, for a mere
$19.95! Either MS is getting desperate and/or they're attempting to gain more
"converts" to Office 2007!


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Gemini,

FWIW, even if you're now 'Ribbon free', while the blog from the Office UI team has a lot of pre-release Office 2007 Ribbon/articles
on it, Jensen Harris' (MS Office User Experience Manager) presentation from Mix08 in March 2008 may be of some interest to you in
walking thru the process of how they got from 'there' to 2007, if you have about an hour on a high speed connection to watch or
download (pretty big download though)
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx :)

The presentation includes some of the MS spreadsheets/details of how many clicks things took then vs 'now' and mentions that the
review and update is never 'done' :) I found the process nice to learn about and the designs shown that aren't what ended up being
in Office 2007 to be a bit of a relief <g>.

The panel discussion link (further down that page) on User Experience design includes the 'Chief Engineer' for Firefox design for
Mozilla among others on the process of designing. That panel discussion starts off with this one about another, even older 'new
interface' introduction :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
Sort of to show that new interfaces have probably never been readily accepted by everyone :) It's easier to read the text if you go
to full screen or at least a larger window from the web page.

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<<"Gemini" <Gemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5DAC12F4-FA23-4462-A490-DAB935990A90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Bob! Thus far, I haven't come across any functions I use/need that
actually use less mouse/keyboard clicks.

You're right, it's Alt-W, not Ctrl-w. I do need to catch up on my sleep. In
any case, I'll soon be "Ribbon free", when I get rid of the Office 2007 trial
version.

Gemini >>
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office Stuff MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*




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