J, there are a vast number of experienced Office customers who completely
agree with you. Perhaps the more we proclaim that "the Emperor wears no
clothes", the sooner Microsoft will wake up and smell the coffee and fix the
interface for Office 2007. The ribbon does have a couple of good features
but overall I find it cumbersome and irritating: when I've tried performing
the same tasks in Excel 2007 that I have in prior versions, it actually takes
me more time and mindless keystrokes. Even with the third party menus, the
new dialogue boxes still exist and the full functionality isn't there. As a
result, I've "upgraded" back to Excel 2000 and PowerPoint 2000 and consigned
the Office 2007 versions to the rubbish heap. I only keep them around in
case someone sends me a 2007 file that I can't open.
As for Patrick Schmid's free menus, I purchased the third party ones before
I was aware of them, sometime around mid-April 2007. I also see that he was
chastised for "caving" in to people's requests for menus. Warning bells
should be going off all over Microsoft at this point, but so far it all
appears to be falling on deaf ears.
Incidentally, a lot of large corporations I work with are postponing their
"upgrade" to Office 2007 until this issue is resolved. Maybe Microsoft will
start listening to customers now.
joe_btfsplk
"J Walker" wrote:
Thanks for your understanding JoAnn.
You are of course correct€¦
Why should any of us expect that all our years of learning, using and
upgrading the MS products would warrant any reasonable expectation that they
would not go off and re-invent all the menus and commands that we have spent
the last 20 years learning?
I have the feeling that this new UI will go the way of New Coke. Anybody
remember New Coke?
Thanks again JoAnn.
"JoAnn Paules" wrote:
Yeah, how dare they not do your homework for you! Bad company!
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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher
How to ask a question
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"J Walker" wrote in message
...
The Arrogance of Microsoft
This just shows how little Microsoft actually cares about its customer
base.
If they had any concern at all they would have included the classic UI,
rather than forcing us to purchase it for an additional $29 from some
third
party. What arrogance!
I am so sorry that I upgraded. Ive used Word for just about 20 years now
and I am an absolute fool for trusting MS. I should have done more
research
before buying.
Microsoft clearly does not care about its long time customers.
"Tom B" wrote:
How do we turn on the old menu bar in word 2007? Without it office 2007
will
cost far to much to implement because employee's will need to be
retrained.