I have been a WP user from the 80's and have been using MSW off and on as of
late trying to learn the program. What a waste of my money in the purchase
of the 2007 vintage. Talk about confusing. What does MS think some of the
secretaries are going to do when their boss tries to convert them to this
new version. How about pulling out their hair ... or better yet the boss's
hair.
JB
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Given what you want, I have the PERFECT program to recommend. It's called
Word 2003. ;-)
However, if you're stuck with Word 2007, there are several "solutions"
that provide a classic Word interface for Word 2007. If you google the
following terms, you'll find some helpful matches:
word 2007 classic menus
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"irritatedbygrpahics"
wrote in message
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Somebody please create a skin or a way to get rid of the new and more
helpful
"ribbon". It is taking me five-times as long to create a document then
before. Don't give me new graphic images to learn.... I want a down and
dirty program where I set my preferences once and they are always there.
The
old drop down menus were more efficient and took up less space. I don't
need
pictures of where my page numbers are going to be! I don't need all the
predesigned margin combinations. I know the difference between the words
"left", "right", and "center", so please don't show me small screen shots
of
how the numbers will look. Give me, the user, more control of what I
want
done and how I want to do it and stop making things more "helpful". All
the
little graphic images are more distracting, not more helpful. Trying to
LEARN what all the little imagea mean is like learning another
language...I
don't have the time or desire to learn a new language. And after all the
improvements, I still cannot write mathematical formulas or problems
without
the assistence of another program.
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