Re: What a horrible disappointment

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and this affects outlook how?

BTW, give the ribbon two weeks - it'll grow on you. Also, keep in mind this is a beta and little things in the interface will change before RTM - a lot has changed since Beta1.


"CMM" <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eELl8GvfGHA.5104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I gotta say that I am profoundly disappointed with Office 2007. I'm still trying to understand the ribbon... (it seems to basically be just an "exploded" menu bar)... but in essense, this is nowhere near the revolutionary release MS marketing is contending.

1) Excel and PowerPoint STILL have the same confusing, horrible MDI / fake-sdi interface. How hard is it to get Word's true SDI right? Even better, implement a nice TABBED document interface. Give the taskbar a break. This is a showstopper.

2) Dialogs are just as unattractive- and more importantly, unintuitive- as ever... in fact they look completely untouched. For instance, Word's Modify Style dialog box (with the unintuitively placed Modify button in the lower left hand side) is just as unweildy as ever. Excel's equation dialog doesn't look like it's been touched since Windows 3.1.

3) Why does resizing the window not resize the view? How do we get a Text Width view? Oh, now I have to go into dialog box to do it?! You gotta be kidding me. Word's "view" of a document is just as distracting and annoying as ever.

4) No *unified* Template Center / Gallery / Task Manager? Office has needed an attractive, nicely designed Task Manager for a long time. The old New / Open tools were a beginning but they were never IMPROVED. The idea wasn't bad.... it just wasn't followed through on. Often, I'll need to create a document but not sure which app to use (Word or Publisher... I don't know!!! I'm so confused! Let me call IT.... wait I am IT!!!).

There's more... but these are biggies. So far, I don't see much in this release that especially compelling. Same old Office..... with a new menu bar.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com


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