[grammatim[_2_]]

On May 31, 5:40*am, panthera
wrote:
"Frustrated - London" wrote:
Just wondering whether I can change the graphics-based Word 2007 menu back to
the 2003/ 'alt' + a, b style menu, which (in spite of working hard at it over
the last month) I find clearer, faster and more logical than all these teeny,
indistinct icons!

OK, I've worked with Office 2007 now for going on two years. What I have
found is the following:
For simple text based work (things I could as easily do in Wordpad), the
ribbon interface is simple and easy to use.

The moment I use Word professionally - I teach and write, edit and compile
complex documents - the ribbon interface falls to pieces.

The idea is good and I had no trouble learning it (well into my 50's). The
implementation is absolutely awful. Whoever set the menus up was listening to
the wrong focus group.

After many many hours of tinkering, I now have the interface in Word at the
place where it works for me.

But you didn't say what you did.

Just about everything I use regularly is on the QAT (which is much
better than the old plethora of toolbars popping up all over the place
where maybe one icon was needed).