If you remember the old UI navigation those commands are still available if
you want to use them. For example Alt+T+O opens Word Options.
Oh, and the change to the User Templates location, the removal of the view
of the path, was back in Word 2002 - that's not new.
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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"Larry" wrote in message
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Well, that's good news, except that the user would have to remember, which
is the third command on the TAC, which is the fourth, etc. That's not as
easy to use as the regular menu (which MS has taken away) where it's
effortless to remember that Alt+V opens the View menu, Alt+I opens the
Insert menu, and so on.
An additional problem, but just for me, is that I already have Alt+1,
Alt+2,
etc. assigned to important macros that I use constantly to assign styles.
MS says 2007 is more "intuitive." This is the biggest of Big Lies. The
sheer complexity of the Ribbon, its constantly changing, bewildering
appearance, creates an informational overload on the user. The hiding
away
of various dialog boxes—which used to be two instant steps from the Word
surface—in completely illogical, arbitrary locations is the very opposite
of
intuitive or logical or even minimally considerate to the user. For
example, folks, try to find the User Template default path. You can find
it
(though you will probably need Help in order to do so), but once you've
found it, see how much harder it is to get to than it used to be, and how
senseless and arbitrary its location is.
Finally, when you do get there, notice that it will not actually tell you
what the current template default path is. In Word 97, you get a
"compressed" view of the path, but if you click on the Modify button the
complete path is displayed. Nice and simple. One might even call it
intuitive. Not so with Word 2007, the "easier," "more intuitive" version
of
Word! In Word 2007, when you click on Modify, the Template path is NOT
displayed and there's no way to get it. Instead, a folder opens with some
kind of complicated Explorer type view which does not actually display the
default Template path but something else (I couldn't figure it out at
all).
So I had to keep searching and it took me about 10 minutes last night just
to find the Templates folder for Word 2007 in Windows Vista.
What is called a more "intuitive" version of Word is actually a bloated
bureaucratic monstrosity.