Hi Digitig,
On the keyboard shortcuts you mentioned, you may find that many of the old version ones still work g as do the new ones.
For example Alt, E, F will still bring up Edit=Find (as will Ctrl+F). If you press Alt, then E, you should see a tooltip that
Word 2007 recognized that you are using an Office 2003 shortcut key sequence
Old ones that don't always work were often on the old File menu (now Office button menu), where properties moved to
Office Button=Prepare=Properties so (Alt, F, E, P) works to get you to the 'basic' properties, but the old (Alt, F, I) will
now take you to the 'Office Center' (Word 2007 Options) dialog
You can, however, add your own keyboard shortcuts as well, at least in Word g. For example to add a keyboard shortcut for the
Word 2003 like properties dialog you can use
Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts
(Alt, F, I, C)
and from the 'All commands' category, select the FileProperties choice.
You can right click on the Crop tool icon to add-it to the Quick access toolbar, although it does appear in the
Picture Tools=Format ribbon with a double click of the picture after inserting a caption.
If you're handy with VBA (which
I'm not g, it can probably also be added to the right click menu for pictures as well.
There are a number of different spreadsheets, by example tools and add-ins available that you may find helpful.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx
http://officelabs.com/projects/searc...s/default.aspx
Some folks prefer to work with a minimzed ribbon (ctrl+F1 or double click on a ribbon tab)
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"digitig" wrote in message ...
"Older Than You" wrote:
Oh great, I guess we are supposed to be mind-readers and just know all this.
"Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior?"
To be fair, I'm quite glad that Microsoft can't see everything I'm typing in
my word processor. I do like /some/ degree of privacy!
Isn't MS supposed to be telling US where these behaviors are? Didn't
someone test this before releasing it? Why to users have to point out the
problems?
But I guess if there is no regard for the amount of lost productivity caused
by someone in MS not having anything better to do than completely change the
UI, there certainly is no interest in telling customers how the new UI
actually works (when it does).
Well, I loathe the new UI with a vengeance, especially the way common hot
key sequences are really long (altEF replaced with altHFDF, and try
getting to custom document properties just using the keyboard!) whilst rare
actions have really short sequences (altPH for hyphenation settings and
altPJ to set the columns -- both things that I do once and for all in the
document template), and the way I keep having to switch between ribbon tabs
when on previous version I could have left all the relevant toolbars open for
the task I was performing (when I'm putting a series of figures drawn in a
different tool into a document, I hate the way the crop icon goes away when I
add a caption -- I reckon it pretty much doubles the distance the mouse has
to travel to do the job).
But for all that, when I had trouble with word count I came here and found
that the function I was used to was still available and still worked as it
should, so credit to Microsoft for leaving it in. And when I come here with
what is effectively a bug report, what on earth do you expect /any/
responsible company to do other than ask for the steps to repeat the
behaviour?
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*